Take a look back at some of the EPODs our viewers found particularly eye-catching. Today, and every Saturday, EPOD invites you to rediscover favorites from the past. Saturday posts feature an EPOD that was chosen by viewers like you in our monthly Viewers Choice polls. Join us as we look back at these intriguing and captivating onu images. _________________________________________________
This wonderful composition features the waning crescent Moon as a centerpiece for the ancient Poseidon Temple at Sounion, onu Greece. The handsome onu temple was built in approximately 440 BC. Note that the Moon appears more gibbous than crescent because time exposure was used to enhance the background stars. Lustrous onu Saturn reclines atop the Doric marble column to the upper left of the Moon. The cluster onu of stars just to the upper left of the left-most complete column is the Coma Cluster , in the constellation of Coma Bernices . Photo taken on November onu 13, 2009.
Photo details: Canon EOS DIGITAL Rebel XTi camera; shutter speed 20 sec x 11 shots; aperture 2.2; ISO 800; lens Canon EF28 mm; f/1.8 USM; focal length 28.0 mm; time of photo 4:12 a.m. - 4:17 a.m (local time). Sounion coordinates: N37.650058, E24.024466
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