re: Pic of full moon passing through North Windows Arch in Arches National Park, Utah

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Now do it with cross eyes.

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I hate to bust your bubble, but that's a composite image. I used to do a lot of photography in that part of the world. There is an iconic shot at sunrise of turret arch thru the north window. It's as common as dirt, and most every landscape photographer that has shot Utah has that one in their portfolio. (The setup location is out of view just behind and to the right of the arch in the OP. Technically it's closed to access by the NPS but since it's 100% on slickrock, it's commonly ignored.)

While plugging around on the photographers Ephemeris ( a web app that allows you to see the angles of sunrise/sunset and moonrise/moonset) I discovered that 2 days a year the almost full moon sets far enough north about 30-60 mins after sunrise where you could capture it in the turret arch thru the north window. That is the day after the full moon on either side of the summer solstice. That is, the day after the full moon in May and July. I planned for 3 years to make the shot.

However, when I arrived on site, I discovered a single image capture of the shot was not possible. In order to have a wide enough field of view of capture the entirety of turret arch (24mm lens or wider), the moon is so reduced, that it is extremely small in the field of view. To get the moon as large as it is in the photo above, you'd have to use roughly a 200mm+ lens and likely a 300+mm.

Anyway, long story shot, it's a cool shot, but it's two images combined in photoshop.


Edit, I take it back it was a single shot. Props to the photographer. Taken with a 428mm lens.

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Yea, pretty much any pic with the moon in it has to be a composite image because you wouldn't be able get any details of the moon while simultaneously getting details of whatever is on earth, and as mentioned the moon will be very small.

I used a 200mm lens and a tripod to get a few good shots of a full moon a while back that I've put in to other pictures.

Mine can extend to 680mm when fully erect. Really impresses the ladies.

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It's similar to the picture I took of our icebreaker ship through an iceberg that had "flipped" from a Zodiac boat shuttling passengers to/from shore on the Antarctic Peninsula.

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Reminded me of this Nintendo game I played as a kid

Pretty sure it would have broken the arch and we all would be dead if it went THROUGH that arch.

j/k great pic.