An ice crystal halo around the waxing quarter Moon, Dec. 1, 2014, taken from New Mexico. This is a 30-second exposure at f/2.8 with the 14mm lens and Canon 6D at ISO 400, with the bright area around the Moon itself masked and made from 3 shorter exposures to lower the intensity of the centre of the halo. The altitude of the Moon was 62° and the halo shows a split appearance on the east and west sides from what is called a circumscribed halo adding to the normal 22° halo.
The bright and wide double syar, Beta Capricorni, a.k.a. Dabih, hangs on the leading limb of the crescent Moon, about to be hidden, or occulted by the Moon in a few minutes. This was Wednesday, November 26, 2014, shot from New Mexico. The dark side of the Moon is illuminated by Earthshine. This is a high dynamic range composite of 12 exposures from 4 seconds to 1/500 second, at ISO 400 with the Canon 60Da and through the TMB 92mm apo refractor at f/5.5 with the Hotech flattener. Images merged and tone-mapped in Photoshop HDR Pro and ACR.
The 4.5-day-old waxing crescent Moon in the deep blue twilight sky, with stars of Capricornus around the Moon including Beta Capricorni at left that the Moon occulted later that evening. This was November 26, 2014, from New Mexico. This is an HDR stack of 12 exposures at 1-stop increments from 4 secodns to 1/500th second at ISO 400 with the Canon 6D and thru the TMB 92mm apo refractor at f/6 with the Hotech field flattener. Composited and tone-mapped in Photoshop HDR Pro and ACR. Mount running at the Lunar drive rate.
