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Amy Van Artsdalen
North Pole, Alaska, USA
08/02/2023
01:26 am

Equipment Details:

Canon 5D MIII, Tamron 28-300, ISO 3200, f/6.3, 1/500 sec

Post-processing Details:

Adobe Lightroom - exposure enhancing and cropping

Image Details:

The elusive Alaskan Sturgeon moon. The moon will rise just slightly over the horizon and will rise and set in 3 hours and 9 minutes (moonrise - 12:42 AM; moonset 2:51 AM). Just as the moon started to rise, clouds came in and obscured everything. We are in North Pole, Alaska for a 63 day tour of the state and are getting used to the amount of daylight. Previously, we were in Chicken, Alaska and the moon didn't rise at all!