Full Moon – 4/26/2021, 11:30pm EDT

Telescope: Astro-Tech RC8 @ f/8, Orion Atlas EQ-G

Camera: Baader modified Nikon D610, Baader Mk III MPCC

Filter: Highpoint Scientific IR Filter

Exposure: 32×1/2000 sec, ISO 800, saved as RAW

Seeing: fair, 3/5

White Balance: Photoshop & Nebulosity Automatic

Software: Backyard Nikon, Nebulosity, Registax, Photoshop

This is a quick stack of this evening Full Moon, the Pink Moon. I had to take several sets of 32 frames each to get a fair number of subs where the haze wasn’t too bad. I ended up with 64 source frames of which I stacked 32. Of course the skies cleared as I was putting my gear away! This image was taken right around the time that the moon was passing just north of the Earth’s shadow. If you look closely you can see a tiny sliver of terminator sweeping around the moon’s south pole. Neat stuff!