q LUNAR SPLENDOR
Jason Weathers
The young crescent Moon seen here sports sev-
eral large features just visible to the naked eye.
Mare Crisium is seen at upper right, with craters
Atlas (top), Gutenberg (middle), and Janssen
(bottom) just emerging into daylight along the
sunrise terminator.
DETAILS:Celestron SP-C6 6-inch Newtonian
refl ector with RisingTech G3-6300KMA video cam-
era. Stack of 839 frames from a one-minute video
recorded on June 6th.GALLERY
74 SEPTEMBER 2019 • SKY & TELESCOPE
MIGHTY ORION
Terry Hancock
Just south of Orion’s Belt resides the near-
est star-forming region in the Milky Way. It
includes M42 (center), M43 to its upper left,
and the Running Man Nebula consisting of
NGC 1973, NGC 1975, and NGC 1977 (top).
DETAILS:Takahashi FSQ-130 astrograph with
QHY367C CMOS camera. Total exposure is 6.7
hours recorded over 5 nights.