The most impressive Saharan dust event in more than a decade here on Crete happened on 22 Mar 2018. As the day progressed the sky went from yellow to deep orange. All photos are taken with daylight whitebalance, and no post-processing has been performed.
OK, not a planet this time, but our beautiful Moon. It was the first time I tried the raw option for the Moon with my old Canon S80 digital camera (with the CHDK firmware update). The camera was handheld over the eyepiece. By lucky coincidence the camera's objective fits snugly into the 26 mm Meade eyepiece "barrel", so it is quite easy to hold the camera stable. Without the raw shooting mode I get lots of color fringing and softness at the edges of the Moon (from the eyepiece), but this can all be corrected during the raw "development". Not bad for a 12 year old camera. Shot from my terrace on Feb 8, 2017 (probably).
I am falling behind in my updates :-) This was captured almost a year ago; I think from the Ederi hilltop, on May 3rd 2017 (probably).
