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Behold the Pink Moon.

You’ll note, of course, that it’s not pink. “Pink” is just the name for the moon in April. This one I captured with the ASI678MC. The full disk fits pretty nicely with the Askar FRA400 + 678, though I do need to worry more about it drifting out of frame sooner.

Best 35% of 500 images, 2x drizzle, stacked & sharpened in PlanetarySystemStacker, edited in Affinity Photo (levels, curves, etc.).

The sun and moon captured about 6 hours apart on April 23. The sun was super active with tons of sunspots and the moon was 100% full. I captured the moon right after it cleared the trees and the color is unedited.

Both were captured from my backyard with my QHY168C camera and EQ6-R mount. I used a homemade solar filter with Thousand Oaks film for the sun shots.

NICK DRAKE
Pink Moon
2013 Europe reissue

A raging headache and a nasty cold begs for only one remedy.

One of my preferred “just put it on and chill” records, and still my preferred Nick Drake album.

It’s a huge drag he couldn’t be appreciated in his own time the way he is now.
Better late than never, I guess.