{"id":7683,"date":"2019-10-09T19:47:23","date_gmt":"2019-10-10T02:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2019\/10\/09\/waxing-gibbous-moon\/"},"modified":"2019-10-09T19:47:23","modified_gmt":"2019-10-10T02:47:23","slug":"waxing-gibbous-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2019\/10\/09\/waxing-gibbous-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"Waxing Gibbous Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/20191009-waxing-gibbous-moon.jpg' title='Waxing Gibbous Moon'><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/20191009-waxing-gibbous-moon.jpg' alt='Waxing Gibbous Moon' width='550' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I had a notion this evening to grab my camera and take a photo of the waxing gibbous moon shining overhead at 85% illumination. Again, as I did taking the photo of the <a href=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2019\/09\/29\/emergence-of-the-waxing-crescent\/\">emerging crescent moon<\/a> last week, I did not use a tripod and remote shutter release, but rather I propped myself and the camera up against one of the porch pillars out in the courtyard. I used the automatic program shutter priority along with some post-processing to get the result seen above.<\/p>\n<p>The Camera Settings were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Camera &#8211; Canon Rebel EOS SL1<\/li>\n<li>Program &#8211; Shutter Priority<\/li>\n<li>Shutter Speed Set To 1\/4000 sec<\/li>\n<li>F Stop &#8211; 5.6<\/li>\n<li>ISO 6400<\/li>\n<li>Lens &#8211; Canon EF 75-300 set to 300mm Focal Length<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Other than shutter speed, the camera automatically picked the other settings. In the post processing, I used my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irfanview.com\">IRFANVIEW<\/a> utility to crop the image, to enhance the gamma setting and eliminate the chromatic aberration caused by the cheap Telephoto lens. I would really like to get a better lens, but they are somewhat cost-prohibitive for as often as I have a need for one. I do have a camera adapter for my little Matsutov-Cassegrain telescope, but that, like a bunch of other things only comes out when I am highly motivated. Maybe the motivation will come one of these nights.<\/p>\n<p>After I took the photo, Damsel and I stepped out to the courtyard to enjoy a nearly overhead pass of the International Space Station. The weather is starting to cool off a bit and we wore outer garments for the first time since early spring. This evening, the temperature plummeted to the low 70s which we consider quite cool. I know, I know, it&#8217;s snowing up north, and lots of snowbirds are already in town because of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a notion this evening to grab my camera and take a photo of the waxing gibbous moon shining overhead at 85% illumination. Again, as&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,83,17,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-notions","category-photography","category-something-shiny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}