Both Moon and Sun rising behind Brisbane city

[StephenM (Stephen)]

Hi all,

I got up early on Tuesday to capture first the crescent Moon rising behind the city buildings, and then 2 hrs later the Sun rising behind the city buildings Here's the result after stacking all the photos together.
(there are larger sized crops of the Sun and Moon emerging behing the buildings on my Flickr page here if you're interested:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/stephenmudge/)

Thanks for looking!

Cheers,
Stephen

[Derek Klepp]

Nice shot

[batema (Mark)]

Very cool.

[ChrisM]

Very neat, and a good size comparison.
Chris

[iceman (Mike)]

Very clever!

[axle01 (Alan)]

Originally Posted by iceman

Very clever!

Recon

[netwolf]

That looks awesome, what is the gap between shots?

[deanm (Dean)]

Terrific image!

Someone straighten me out: the horizontal spacing and above-horizon points are (very obviously!) different for the sun & moon.

Is this due to the moon's Earth-orbital inclination being slightly different to the Earth's sun-orbit inclination?

(Another way of asking the same question is "why don't the two sequences of photos, taken 2 hours apart, overlay each other?")

Dean

[leon]

Wow that is very impressive indeed, love it.

Leon

[deanm (Dean)]

No thoughts on this, IIS-ers?!

Dean

"Terrific image!

Someone straighten me out: the horizontal spacing and above-horizon points are (very obviously!) different for the sun & moon.

Is this due to the moon's Earth-orbital inclination being slightly different to the Earth's sun-orbit inclination?

(Another way of asking the same question is "why don't the two sequences of photos, taken 2 hours apart, overlay each other?")"

[geolindon (Lindon)]

firstly; another great project Stephen, and an awesome pic the result . . . and some stimulation;
Dean, it might be because our moon orbits about 5 deg. from the ecliptic that our sun and sibling planets follow as per wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbit_of_the_Moon

which surprised me, my first guess was 'because luna orbited at earth's equator and earth's axial tilt/wobble re the sun'.

cheers, L