Quarter Moon, April 1993 Taken from Las Campanas Observatory, Chile. Using 24-inch f/16 Helen Sawyer Hogg Telescope (formerly owned by University of Toronto) at Cassegrain focus, with focal reducer for effective f/11. This image is a mosaic of four 35mm images, taken scanning down the disk of the Moon and stitched together in Photoshop. Each 35mm slide scanned at 4000 dpi and full resolution retained for this mosaic. Black sky added to expand area around the Moon for more "breathing" room and for page layout. Some horizontal seams barely visble -- where images overlap there is less grain and a a smoother background than where image is made of one frame. Film: Ektachrome 100 slide film, exposure not recorded. Seeing superb as always at Las Campanas. Smart Sharpen, Reduce Noise and Shadows/Highlights with Mid-Tone Contrast boost applied to flattened version.
The colors of the sunset sky, from home on August 6, 2014, in a 360° panorama at sunset. The setting Sun is at far right, the waxing gibbous Moon left of centre. This is a sitch of 7 segments each shot with the 14mm Rokinon lens in portrait mode, and with the Canon 6D. Exposure metered then kept consistent for each frame. Stitched in PTGui 10. Vibrancy and contrast increased for effect but it was a spectacular sky.
A 270° panorama of the setting Sun and waxing gibbous Moon over Western Port bay at Cowes on Philip Island near Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The Sun is setting slightly north of due west, while the 9-day-old Moon sits in the northeast, at an angle of about 110° away from the Sun. This is a stitch of 15 panels taken with the 35mm lens oriented portait, and the Canon 6D camera. Stitched with PTGui with a lot of manual point registration required due to the lack of land area over many segments to align to.
