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A bite out of the Moon

Dave Campbell from San Antonio, Texas

The partial lunar eclipse of Sept. 17 (which happened to occur during a Super Moon) is captured in this image taken with an 8-inch Celestron RASA scope with a 0.7x reducer and a cooled monochrome camera.