Moonscape

The moon, just one day removed from full, rises in the northeast sky around 6:20 PM, Monday, January 9, 2012 as seen from the top of the sledding hill at Bowman Woods Park in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Sledding was definitely not in the picture as temperatures were in the mid-40s at this hour and snow had not covered the ground in any significant amount at this point during the winter of 2011/2012. The radio transmitter towers in the distance at center are located at 1837 Radio Road, just east of Highway 13 in the neighboring town of Marion and are operated by WMT Radio. The towers are located about 4.5 miles from this position. The light streaks at bottom left was created from traffic along Boyson Road. The foreground portion of this composite image is a six-second exposure at f/7.1, 640 ISO and 44mm focal length. The moon was shot separately at 1/1000-second at f/7.1, 640 ISO and 200mm focal length.