Quick Photo
Cloud cover forecasts at my location are often inaccurate. When I glanced outside on March 25 after sunset it was unexpectedly clear with a crescent Moon above the western horizon. Clear skies don't last long these days, so I hurried to set my camera on a tripod. I took several quick exposures to see if I could capture earthshine on the Moon. The following image is the best of the bunch.
It turns out the Moon was passing close to the Pleiades cluster! Of course, I should have known this and set up a telescope in advance to get a much better picture, but I expected cloudy skies.
The lunar crescent is overexposed and the Pleiades are underexposed. A longer exposure to brighten the Pleiades would make the crescent even more saturated. Now I'm curious to see how well my 130 mm refractor would render a scene like this at higher magnification.
The image above is cropped from a 2.5-second exposure with a Nikon Z6 2 camera. The lens was set at 40 mm, f/2.8, and ISO was 100.
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