Driving home this evening, I was struck by the beautiful sight of the nearly full Moon with Jupiter. With the dynamic range of the human eye, Jupiter looked quite bright while the Moon had some detail. With the more limited dynamic range of the camera, I could not capture the range. The picture of the pair below was taken with two two-stop graduated neutral density filters, and yet Jupiter (to the left) is hard to see and the Moon lacks detail. I was pleased with how my unfiltered pictures of the Moon solo turned out. Enjoy!
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