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Supermoon!

A Composite
NZIPP New Zealand Institute of Professional Photography 2016 "IRIS" Gold award winner.

Updating what I wrote in the ori...
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A Composite
NZIPP New Zealand Institute of Professional Photography 2016 "IRIS" Gold award winner.

Updating what I wrote in the original post:
this image was front page of www.reddit.com twice (6th place and then 1st place) & had two million views from imgur.com, was the subject of an article on snopes.com, shared on one facebook group alone 55,000 times, and even made in to a meme!
Sadly, it was cropped - my explanation of this being a composite was lost - and went viral on twitter with the title 'Perfect Framing, Perfect Timing' and has been featured goodness knows how many times in articles with titles like '30 perfect photos you won't believe aren't Photoshopped'. such as the www.brightside.me article which sadly had this and many other images that to my eyes also look photoshopped!
Contrary to this, 500px iso published an interesting article using what happened to my image:
https:--iso.500px.com-the-supermoon-composite-that-went-viral-without-credit-
Again, it is a composite image of the a radio telescope from the Warkworth Observatory & a recent supermoon.
search " supermoon in radio telescope "
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