The moon this evening, one day before full - 1 image attached

[William Bottaci]

The Moon this evening; I waited until the last moment, 8:15 pm before the clouds rolled in. I wanted it to be as high as possible but the air looked pretty good and stable.
Almost exactly a day before Full.

  Altitude            45½º above horizon
  Diameter         32º 27'
  Phase angle   166.6º

Canon R7 with RF 100-500mm L IS lens with x1.4 tele-extender (set to 700mm), hand-held stabilised.
  f/10, 1/250 sec, ISO 400.
A provisionally processed single jpeg image.

Weather was clear and air was reasonably steady; not often the case when clear.

The Moon passed its closest approach 1½ days ago so still looking large but now moving further away.

The colour is a little saturated but is genuine. The yellow coloration is volcanic glass beads, orange tints are areas poor in iron, green tints are rich in olivine and blueish tints rich in titanium (Mare Tranquillitatis [Sea of Tranquility] shows this particularly).

Needs to be viewed at 100% size, about 2120 px, when downloaded for the most detail; most if not all browsers show a 'quick' degraded image otherwise.
Thank you for looking.
William

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[Trev S]

That's a lovely image William. You captured a lot of detail, especially considering it is a single shot hand held image.

The colours really stand out when viewed a full scale and even more so if artificially enhanced in Photoshop.