"A 40-second Window"
[Excerpted from my book Behind The Door: Profiles of a Peninsula]
Forty seconds. That was the narrow window of opportunity I had to capture an image of a transiting full super moon centered down the gullet of the Sturgeon Bay canal entrance. Forty seconds. Not impossible, but a formidable challenge. And, if I missed it, odds were I would never have another chance. Due to the moon’s daily variability in declination, this precise alignment of a full super moon occurs just one time a metonic cycle—once every 18.6 years. I first imagined this composition in 2018, not knowing whether or not it was even possible. My reliable and sophisticated astronomical smartphone app, PhotoPills, informed me that it was possible—but for one night only, during astronomical twilight on May 26, 2021 and there was only one location from where this photograph could be taken: standing on the Bay View Bridge.
[Excerpted from my book Behind The Door: Profiles of a Peninsula]
Forty seconds. That was the narrow window of opportunity I had to capture an image of a transiting full super moon centered down the gullet of the Sturgeon Bay canal entrance. Forty seconds. Not impossible, but a formidable challenge. And, if I missed it, odds were I would never have another chance. Due to the moon’s daily variability in declination, this precise alignment of a full super moon occurs just one time a metonic cycle—once every 18.6 years. I first imagined this composition in 2018, not knowing whether or not it was even possible. My reliable and sophisticated astronomical smartphone app, PhotoPills, informed me that it was possible—but for one night only, during astronomical twilight on May 26, 2021 and there was only one location from where this photograph could be taken: standing on the Bay View Bridge.
[Excerpted from my book Behind The Door: Profiles of a Peninsula]
Forty seconds. That was the narrow window of opportunity I had to capture an image of a transiting full super moon centered down the gullet of the Sturgeon Bay canal entrance. Forty seconds. Not impossible, but a formidable challenge. And, if I missed it, odds were I would never have another chance. Due to the moon’s daily variability in declination, this precise alignment of a full super moon occurs just one time a metonic cycle—once every 18.6 years. I first imagined this composition in 2018, not knowing whether or not it was even possible. My reliable and sophisticated astronomical smartphone app, PhotoPills, informed me that it was possible—but for one night only, during astronomical twilight on May 26, 2021 and there was only one location from where this photograph could be taken: standing on the Bay View Bridge.
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