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Slim Crescent Moon

An extremely slender crescent setting over Kronberg. When I first got my Losmandy G11, I had nothing to mount on it other than an ETX-90 OTA. It looked funny, but it worked to test the mount, and one of the first photos is this crescent.

Exposure Data

• Lens: Meade ETX (F=1250mm)
• Mount: Losmandy G11
• F-stop: 13.9
• Exposure: 1/2 second
• Film: Fuji Provia 100F
• Filter: none
• Date: 25-February 2001
• Location: Kronberg, Germany

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