Waxing Gibbous Moon

NOTES
DATE:
Friday, August 4, 2006
TIME:
9:19 pm EDT
CAMERA:
Canon EOS 300D Digital Rebel
EXPOSURE:
1/160 second @ ISO 100
LOCATION:
Kalamazoo Nature Center - Owl Observatory
INSTRUMENT:
Meade 12" LX200 Schmidt-Cassegrain @ f/6.3 with Celestron Focal Reducer.
PROCESSING:
Unsharp masking, levels and curves adjusted with Adobe Photoshop 7.
COMMENTS:
The Waxing Gibbous Moon about 2.6 days past First Quarter.   It's a little on the fuzzy side, but it was only 19 degress above the horizon when this image was taken and seeing was slightly below average.