Almost Super Color Ful(l) Moon

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Almost Super Color Ful(l) Moon 2024-08-19 20:03 UT

Last night’s full moon at 20:03 UT, almost a super moon, i.e. a full moon at perigee, which will be on 2024-08-21 5:05 UT at a distance of 360193 km. Two days earlier, the Moon here is at declination -14.7°, a distance of 364578 km, aged 13.8 d with the canoncial full moon at 18:28 UT. Combined RGB exposures with heavily boosted colors.

IAS – Internationale Amateursternwarte e.V. – Hakos Observatory, Namibia
IAS remote telescope “Dieter”
Lacerta 12″ Newton f/4, ASA DDM85XL-A, QHY268M, Baader LRGB filters
3x 40 out of 200x RGB frames, mode 1, gain 56, offset 10, -5C
Data acquisition: IAS remote team / Martin Junius
Image processing: PixInsight, BlurXTerminator, Lightroom

Pure L exposure at 20:06 UT, 40 out 200x L frames:

12-inch lacerta remote, NA, astrofotografie, astronomie, astronomy, astrophotography, full moon, hakos, hakos guest farm, ias, ias observatory, ias observatory hakos, khomas, mond, moon, namibia, solar system, sonnensystem, supermoon, world
Almost Super Full Moon 2024-08-19 20:06 UT