Earthshine from Rogie Falls 02/2006 - Les Gamble

Earthshine as photographed from Rogie Falls, near Contin. This area is still blessed with quite dark skies, so the unlit portion of the moon was clearly visible. Half an hour later the view from our house on the outskirts of Inverness was rather sad; you had to strain to see any effect at all! Earthshine is sunlight reflected off the earth and then bounced onto the portion of the moon still in shadow. Image captured using Fujifilm Finepix S5500, ¼ sec @ f3.1, ISO 400. Photoshop CS2 was then used to brighten, despeckle, de-noise, crop etc, etc. Les