A series of short exposures through a near-infrared filtre was obtained of the waning Moon at sunrise on January 12 (at about 10 hrs UT), about
A series of short exposures through a near-infrared filtre was obtained of the waning Moon at sunrise on January 12 (at about 10 hrs UT), about 5 days before New Moon ( days "old"). As can be seen in the image, the edge of the full field-of-view is about the size of the diameter of the Moon. Several sec exposures were made through a near-infrared filtre (856 nm; FWHM 14 nm) with small offsets were recombined (to cover the gaps between the individual CCDs); otherwise, the image is raw. It was rebinned (2x2) to 4kx4k size and sampling arcsec/pixel. The right-hand side of the picture was cropped in this reproduction to reduce the file size
Size: 5315px × 7780px
Location: United States
Photo credit: © Claudio Caridi / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
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