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Spear the Moon

2022-12-12 By Roger Edwards

Spear the Moon

An already promising, early-stage sunset sky of golden cirrus fibratus (above shaded altostratus) became weird when a fresh contrail appeared to spear the waxing crescent moon!  The plane is a faint dot at the left tip of the “spear”.  Of course, this was a fantastic, low-probability, coincidental superposition, thanks to a Boston-to-Paris flight I noticed on a tracking app.  A lot of aviation from the East Coast to Europe heads out in late afternoon and passes coastal Maine near sunset time; I was on one such flight from Boston to Reykjavik over eight years before this.  As usual here on SkyPix, click the image for a larger view.

1 SSE Trenton ME (1 Oct 22) Looking SSW
44.4228, -68.3653

Filed Under: Mini Cloud Atlas, Sunsets and Sunrises, Visual Effects Tagged With: altostratus, cirrus, cirrus fibratus, contrails, forests, Maine, moon, sunsets, Trenton, weather

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Welcome to SkyPix, an online photo book of clouds, weather and water by Roger Edwards. As in a printed coffee-table book, every image has its own page with a unique story. After all, meaningful photography is much more than just picture-taking; it is visually rendering a moment in place and time from a perspective like none other. As a scientist and an artist, I hope my deep passion for the power and splendor of our skies and waters shines through in these pages. If you are a cloud and weather aficionado, outdoor enthusiast, outdoor or nature photographer, art lover, or anyone who craves learning, enjoy...

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