Tuesday, March 26, 2024

Moonshot

 

Full moon rising behind Twin Peaks at 8:34 p.m. on 3/25/2024

I was in the living room reading The Right Stuff, Tom Wolf's book about the first American astronauts, when my wife called me to the back window. "And you'd better hurry!" 

Moonrise was at 8:07 p.m., so it took about 27 minutes to rise to the above position. I'm pretty confident about the time the photo was taken because I just recently re-set the clocks on my cameras to DST.


Full moon over Twin Peaks, with car in the foreground. Some clouds near the top of the moon reduced the exposure there just enough to get some detail on its surface.


Full moon setting this morning over the Eastern Sierra from Bishop.

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