Waning gibbous moon on Feb 19, 2011 - contrast enhanced. Photo by Ari Heinze.

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The lunar maria and craters stand out more starkly in this contrast-enhanced version of the Feb 19 image. Click back and forth between this and the image immediately preceeding it to see not only the change in illumination, but also the subtle yet visible effect of libration over just one day. To see the libration, pay attention to how far craters and other features are from the lunar limb in the two different images

Date/Time	February 19, 2011, about 22:55 CST
Equipment	Home-built eight-inch F/5 Newtonian telescope plus Nikon D3000 DSLR
Settings	Telescope stopped to about F/20 using cardboard mask. Film speed set to 100 ISO. Exposure time 1/15 sec. White balance auto.
Image processing	Cropped, contrast-enhanced using Adobe Photoshop, and resized for web to 1500 pix width.
Image dimensions before resizing	2316x1800
Focus	Good: almost no blurring visible even in the full-resolution raw image.
Motion blur	Negligible
Image noise	Low
Other technical comments	None.

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