Thursday, September 23, 2010

Moonrise, Sunset

Tonight sees the last Sunset of the summer in the northern hemisphere, which this year happens to be in conjunction with the rise of the Harvest (Full) Moon, with both events happening at the nearest time to each other in decades. As you can see from the image below (link to TPE is in my links list on the right), the Sun sets at 7:05pm almost exactly to the West and the Moon rises at 7:07pm almost exactly to the East, so at some point - cloud permitting - the horizon should be lit in a complete 360 degrees (regardless of location on the globe - unless you're reading this from one of the poles!).



Good luck to anyone off out to view or photograph it!

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