Waning gibbous moon in exaggerated color -- noisy image. Photo by Ari Heinze.

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Here the waning gibbous moon gets savagely color-enhanced. The color variations basically match those in the previous, full moon image, but there is a differences in the over all color cast due to the varying performance of the camera's auto white-balance.

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, color saturation enormously increased in Adobe Photoshop, 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	Moderate to high due to enormous increase in color saturation.
Other technical comments	None.

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