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Summer Solstice Moonrise Panorama (June 20, 2024).jpg
Moonrise on the day of summer solstice, June 20, 2024, a day earlier than usual as 2024 was a Leap Year. While the Sun was rising at its most northerly point on the north-eastern horizon this day, the nearly Full Moon (a day before Full this evening) was rising at its most southerly point, in the southeast at far right. East is at centre of the frame.
This year was also the "major lunar standstill," when the Moon's orbital precession over an 18.6-year cycle brought it to its maximum southern declination below the ecliptic, causing it to rise and appear as far south in the sky as it can get, placing it some 5º lower in the sky than it normally would be, so an extra-low summer Full Moon. I shot this panorama a few minutes after moonrise, to have the Moon clear the trees to the southeast, and to have its yellow disk stand out better in the dark blue sky (at moonrise the Moon was partly hidden in low clouds and the sky was much brighter).
The sky is illuminated by twilight colors, with a pale pink Belt of Venus above a dark blue band of Earth's shadow, and with subtle blue crepuscular rays converging on the area near the rising Moon, created by shadows cast by clouds to the west.
Taken from home in southern Alberta, Canada, at ~ 9:45 pm MDT. There is a matching panorama taken 16 hours earlier at sunrise, taken from the exact position (I left the tripod in place all day).
TECH DATA:
This is a panorama of 6 segments at 30° spacings, each segment a 5-exposure HDR blend to retain the bright sky and still bring out the otherwise dark ground. With the Canon R5 and RF28-70mm lens at 28mm.
Each HDR frrame set blended with Adobe Camera Raw, but blended segments then stitched with PTGui with Cylindrical projection, as ACR refused to stitch the pano. Taken as part of a panorama to depict the rise points of the Sun and Moon this day. I applied a mild level of Accent AI, Sky Enhancer and Glow filters with Luminar Neo.
This year was also the "major lunar standstill," when the Moon's orbital precession over an 18.6-year cycle brought it to its maximum southern declination below the ecliptic, causing it to rise and appear as far south in the sky as it can get, placing it some 5º lower in the sky than it normally would be, so an extra-low summer Full Moon. I shot this panorama a few minutes after moonrise, to have the Moon clear the trees to the southeast, and to have its yellow disk stand out better in the dark blue sky (at moonrise the Moon was partly hidden in low clouds and the sky was much brighter).
The sky is illuminated by twilight colors, with a pale pink Belt of Venus above a dark blue band of Earth's shadow, and with subtle blue crepuscular rays converging on the area near the rising Moon, created by shadows cast by clouds to the west.
Taken from home in southern Alberta, Canada, at ~ 9:45 pm MDT. There is a matching panorama taken 16 hours earlier at sunrise, taken from the exact position (I left the tripod in place all day).
TECH DATA:
This is a panorama of 6 segments at 30° spacings, each segment a 5-exposure HDR blend to retain the bright sky and still bring out the otherwise dark ground. With the Canon R5 and RF28-70mm lens at 28mm.
Each HDR frrame set blended with Adobe Camera Raw, but blended segments then stitched with PTGui with Cylindrical projection, as ACR refused to stitch the pano. Taken as part of a panorama to depict the rise points of the Sun and Moon this day. I applied a mild level of Accent AI, Sky Enhancer and Glow filters with Luminar Neo.
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