Insect Transits Crescent Moon
Taken by Peter Lowenstein on September 17, 2017 @
Mutare, Zimbabwe
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Camera Used: Panasonic DMC-TZ60
Exposure Time: 10/800
Aperture: f/6.4
ISO: 400
Date Taken: 2017:09:17 21:42:38
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As dawn broke this morning (17 September), I checked to see if anything more than the Waning Crescent Moon and Venus was visible in the eastern sky above Cecil Kop Nature Reserve (last picture). Unfortunately Regulus, Mercury and Mars remained below the local hilly horizon until it was too light to see them. While taking some close-up pictures of the rising Crescent Moon some annoying insects flew around and in front of the camera and the silhouette of one was captured transiting the upper horn of the crescent! (first picture). In a second wide angle picture, taken less than a minute later, two short narrow insect shadow trails also appear to the left and right of the fading Moon and Venus in the brightening sky. Many pictures have been published with birds, airplanes, satellites and even the ISS transiting in front of the Moon, but I have not seen one of an insect doing so before. These photographs were taken using a hand-held Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ60 compact camera in night scenery mode with up to x60 zoom magnification
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