The waxing crescent Moon in deep evening twilight with stars beginning to appear, with the Moon in Taurus above the Pleiades cluster at right and below the Hyades and Aldebaran above. This was March 31, 2017 from Cape Conran, West Cape area, on the Gippsland Coast of Victoria, Australia. The Moon looks turned around from what we are used to seeing it in the northern hemisphere in the evening sky. This is a stack of 8 exposures, mean combined to smooth noise, for the ground and one exposure for the sky. An added Orton Effect gaussian blur layer adds the dreamy soft-focus effect for the ground. Taken as part of a 700-frame time-lapse sequence.
The waxing crescent Moon in the colours of an evening twilight at Cape Conran, Gippsland Coast, Victoria, Australia, March 31, 2017. From West Cape and Salmon Rocks. The Moon is turned upside down compared to a northern hemisphere view, and looks like a morning waning Moon for northeners. Pink crepuscular rays diverge from the sunset point. This is a single frame from a 700-frame time-lapse sequence with the 35mm lens and Canon 6D on Auto Exposure.
An ice crystal halo around the waxing gibbous Moon, March 7, 2017, with the Moon below the twins stars of Castor and Pollux in Gemini. Orion is at lower right, Auriga at upper right, Leo at left. Sirius is the bright star above the trees. This is a stack of four exposures (10 second, 1 second, 1 second, 1/15 second, and 1/125 second) to preserve the sky and bright Moon, layered and blended with luminosity masks applied with ADP Panel Pro. Shot with the 12mm Rokinon fish-eye lens at f/2.8 and Nikon D750 at ISO 800.
