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amazingskyguy.bsky.social
This is the occultation of the Pleiades star cluster by the waning crescent Moon before dawn on July 20, 2025, with the Moon in colourful clouds. This was at about 3:27 am MDT with the Moon about to occult the star Alcyone left of the Moon. Details in Alt Text.
Technical: With the Askar SQA85 astrographic refractor at f/4.8 and the Canon R5 at ISO 200 for greatest dynamic range. The sky, clouds, stars and Earthlit dark side of the Moon come from a single 10 second exposure. To preserve details in the bright crescent and render the image as the eye could see it through optics, the bright crescent is a blend of 9 exposures from 5 seconds to as short as 1/50th second, blended with Lights1 luminosity masks created with Lumenzia in Photoshop. The lunar disks were all aligned to each other as even during the short minute or so it took to take all the images, the Moon moved noticeably against the background stars. Blue diffraction spikes added to the stars for artistic effect using AstronomyTools actions, to emphasize the Pleiades stars and make them "sparkle." The scope was on the AP400 mount tracking the sky at the sidereal rate.
July 21, 2025 at 7:09 PM
kearneyimages.ie
Sunset at Banna Beach in County #Kerry, #Ireland on the Wild Atlantic Way. A 7-shot panorama taken with #Fujifilm #GFX50s
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#kearneyimages #anthonykearneyphotography #wildatlanticway #wildatlanticwaykerry #landscape #photography #naturephotography #lumenzia #bannabeach #@gregbenzphoto.bsky.social
colour panorama image of banna beach in County Kerry on the Wild Atlantic Way. this beach is forever associated with sir roger casement
March 25, 2025 at 11:06 AM
chuckhenrich.bsky.social
I also use Greg Benz's #Lumenzia, which is a much more full featured luminosity masking plugin, also highly recommended.
January 18, 2025 at 7:48 AM