Between 80% Illumination and Full Moon

As it approaches its full phase, the Moon starts to get quite bright. Surface features like craters are much less apparent with only minimal detail showing. But my camera seems to be able to settle on an exposure time without a problem, and it does a good job with capturing the ray systems that emanate most conspicuously from Tycho and Copernicus craters.

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Waxing gibbous, 82% illumination, May 22, 2021. Canon EOS M200 on 89mm Questar Maksutov-Cassegrain telescope, 1/13 second exposure at ISO 100.

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Waxing gibbous, 88% illumination, July 10, 2022. Canon EOS M200 on 89mm Questar Maksutov-Cassegrain telescope, 1/20 second exposure at ISO 100.

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Waxing gibbous, 93% illumination, July 21, 2021. Canon EOS M200 on 89mm Questar Maksutov-Cassegrain telescope, 1/15 second exposure at ISO 100.

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Waxing gibbous, 95% illumination, March 27, 2021. Canon EOS M200 on 89mm Questar Maksutov-Cassegrain telescope, 1/20 second exposure at ISO 100.

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Waxing gibbous, 99% illumination, May 26, 2021 (image taken minutes before the beginning of a total lunar eclipse). Canon EOS M200 on 89mm Questar Maksutov-Cassegrain telescope, 1/25 second exposure at ISO 100.

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