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Michael A. Stecker
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 Near full Waxing Gibbous moon Illumination: 95% on August 20, 2021 Photographic Data Telescope: William Optics 73 mm f/5.9 ZenithStar FPL53 APO Doublet Refractor Camera: Canon SL1 DSLR on a tripod (no tracking), single 1/500 second exposure at ISO 100, cropped image |
 Crop from photo above with first man landing site on the moon's Sea of Tranquility marked with yellow box and captioned "To The Moon" video. part 3 -- Apollo 11's flight & more |
 from: Apollo 11 Moon Landing Site Seen in Unprecedented Detail | Space . LM is the Lunar Module that carried astronauts Neil Armstrong & Buzz Aldrin to the moon on July 20, 1969 (photo from the Lunar Reconissance Orbiter satellite 15 niles above moon's surface on March 7, 2012) |
| Half moon on 8-14-2021 with same telescope/camera - first light |
| Crescent moon with 5-inch Astro-Physics refractor |
 A photo of a 36% illuminated Waning Crescent moon showing the lunar terminator and Kepler Crater with rays (on left). Taken from my front porch in Los Angeles, California in the early morning of September 30, 2021 . Photographic Data Telescope: Astro-Physics 130 mm (5-inch) f/6 refractor without a field flattener Mount: iOptron GEM45 (not tracking or guiding) Camera: Canon SL1 DSLR Exposure: single at ISO 200 and 1/200 second, prime focus f/6 Processing: RAW image processed in Photoshop Elements 2021: cropped, unsharp mask, adjusted highlights and shadows . |
 Kepler Crater -- boxed in blue . Kepler crater at 32 kilometers in diameter is a lunar impact crater named after the 17th century astronomer & mathematician Johannes Kepler https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler_(lunar_crater) |
