Thursday, October 04, 2012

 

Moonset

One of the nice things about the circumequinoctial times of the year is that dawn comes at a halfway reasonable hour: early enough to be special, but not so early that you have to set the alarm clock. Or I don't anyway.

So on my walk on the first of October I saw this setting full moon, amid clouds that were just starting to pick up sunlight. 

 If I had and knew Photoshop I'd probably take out the electrical wire that runs atop the chimney on the house, but I don't, so there's one ethical dilemma avoided.

 As a bonus, it turns out that October 1 is also Y-henge day. The sun rises directly in the middle of the ornamental metalwork atop the Oak Square YMCA, if you stand so you face it directly. I couldn't manage the exposure well enough to capture that. 

 Y-henge is unlikely to achieve even the limited, geeky fame of MIThenge, but I had hypothesized its existence, and I am pleased to see it is real. 

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