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[quote=oprasnger@gmail.com post_id=290655 time=1552774480]
It has been a sore point with me for years now. Many years ago Arizona Highways began to airbrush any water that appeared in photos taken for the magazine. At first, it was unique, and it was fun to see. However, to airbrush away the beauty of water has become boring, if not irritating. Please give it a second thought. I've been reviewing the photos shown on my NASA website for decades and this is the first time I've been disappointed with one of your presentations. Please reconsider this type of photographic presentation. Water in its pristine condition is beautiful enough.
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In a long exposure normal movement of the water will blur it. No airbrushing was required.

Rob

It has been a sore point with me for years now. Many years ago Arizona Highways began to airbrush any water that appeared in photos taken for the magazine. At first, it was unique, and it was fun to see. However, to airbrush away the beauty of water has become boring, if not irritating. Please give it a second thought. I've been reviewing the photos shown on my NASA website for decades and this is the first time I've been disappointed with one of your presentations. Please reconsider this type of photographic presentation. Water in its pristine condition is beautiful enough.

Dear friend,

I shot with the intent to capture even the Milky Way. Even if the moon was waning at 10-20% of illumination, it was enough to appeare as a unique bright disk.
Unfortunately Antares is too faint to produce a reflection.
Antares could have had warmer colour but in that case the sky would have been almost yellow (light pollution rules) without any color contrast between cold and warm shades which I liked a lot instead.
Clear Skies
Dario

[quote="Chris Peterson" post_id=290357 time=1551710979 user_id=117706]
[quote=elhedl post_id=290356 time=1551709325 user_id=144619]
There is one thing that puzzles me about this image. The moon looks almost full in appearance, yet it must be withing a couple days of new moon! Can someone explain this contradiction?
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In order to capture this image, the Moon is massively overexposed, so you're just seeing the 12% waning crescent as a huge blob. (That's true for Venus, Jupiter, and Antares, as well... all of them are smaller than a single pixel in this image if we could see their true size.) At the scale of the image on the home page, the Moon should be about 8 pixels across. That's what we'd see with a much shorter exposure (which wouldn't show much of anything else). In the image, the Moon is over 12 pixels across, which is that overexposed blob effect.

(The image appears to have been made at about 5:20 am local on 1 February.)
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Thanks for the explanation Chris, that makes sense.

Jupiter has a bluer but fainter reflection too. Can't see one from Antares though!

[quote=elhedl post_id=290356 time=1551709325 user_id=144619]
There is one thing that puzzles me about this image. The moon looks almost full in appearance, yet it must be withing a couple days of new moon! Can someone explain this contradiction?
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In order to capture this image, the Moon is massively overexposed, so you're just seeing the 12% waning crescent as a huge blob. (That's true for Venus, Jupiter, and Antares, as well... all of them are smaller than a single pixel in this image if we could see their true size.) At the scale of the image on the home page, the Moon should be about 8 pixels across. That's what we'd see with a much shorter exposure (which wouldn't show much of anything else). In the image, the Moon is over 12 pixels across, which is that overexposed blob effect.

(The image appears to have been made at about 5:20 am local on 1 February.)

There is one thing that puzzles me about this image. The moon looks almost full in appearance, yet it must be withing a couple days of new moon! Can someone explain this contradiction?

Majestic; to describe the photo! 8-)

Gosh, is this Pareidolia or what? I was sure I'd seen that headland somewhere before - and I have, just not on earth!

See: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap171227.html

John

[float=left][img2]https://c1.staticflickr.com/4/3702/20462237081_4be4f19523_b.jpg[/img2][c][size=85]The Coathanger asterism.
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I can see the Coathanger at far left.

Ann

Very nice. I can also see the centre of the Milky Way, poking through the Earthly clouds on the horizon.

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