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Peter Lowenstein
Mutare, Zimbabwe
04/04/2020
03:52 pm

Equipment Details:

Hand-held Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ60 in sunset mode

Post-processing Details:

Photoshop Elements 15 - crop and enlarge image

Image Details:

Waxing Moon Rising in Bright Sunlight
A few minutes before 4 pm on Saturday afternoon a crystal clear blue sky provided a spectacular view of the Waxing Gibbous Moon rising above a brightly sunlit hill in Cecil Kop Nature Reserve. It is quite unusual for a waxing moonrise to be so clearly visible in broad daylight. This was due to excellent atmospheric visibility after a spell of cloud and rain the previous day and because the Moon appeared at high elevation.

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