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Full moon rising over the Truchas Peaks

Full moon rising over the Truchas Peaks

March 1, 2018. This was my first effort to line up this shot using The Photographer's Ephemeris [Web app - thephotographersephemeris.com]. Apparently I mes...
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March 1, 2018. This was my first effort to line up this shot using The Photographer's Ephemeris [Web app - thephotographersephemeris.com]. Apparently I messed up, though, and the moon took longer to rise the additional distance in the sky to clear the mountains, and so moved too far south. I had wanted to get the moon centered in the "bowl" of the three peaks.
Looking across the Rio Grande Valley from the mesas at Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA
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