The Super Harvest Moon occurred on September 22 this year. Did you see it? What is a Super Harvest Moon? In case you didn’t read the article I linked to, it is a rare occurrence when the full moon rises just as the sun is setting exactly opposite from each other. The moon was at 80º as the sun set at 259º, so 179º apart. Those numbers are probably different depending where you are in the Northern Hemisphere. The moon also set just as the sun rose the next day. Not sure if the moon setting has anything to do with the Super Harvest Moon. I didn’t read about that in any of the articles I saw. I happened on it by accident. As I was leaving for work at about 7:20am, I noticed the moon was setting and the sun was just coming up.
My lens cannot actually get this zoomed in on the moon. These were shot with a 200mm lens on a cropped sensor camera, so 300mm in 35mm equivalent. These are almost 100% crops. That means I maximized the photo to 100% on my screen and cropped it to what you see here. The 5th photo is not cropped to give you a comparison.
From my viewpoint, on my front porch, there are higher mountains to the East than to the West. So from my perspective, the sun had already gone down by the time the moon rose above the mountain. It was still a spectacular sight.
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