Hunting the Hunter's Moon

I sought a tranquil rural setting to best capture the "Hunter's Moon" on Monday evening, October 10, 2022. The moon was actually one day removed from being 100% full (98.3%), but it still promised to be quite showy. I chose a location along North Marion Road, about one-tenth mile north of County Home Road, north of Marion, Iowa. I used the Photo Pills app to gage exactly where the moon would be rising to frame it ahead of time. The image above looks east and shows the moon creeping upward from behind a grove of trees at 7:18 pm CDT. Moonrise was at 7:08 pm. Image is a 1/30 second exposure at f/5.6, ISO 400, 300mm focal length.

This is a composite image, with the foreground captured at 7:06 pm, and the moon at 7:20 pm. Foreground image is a one second exposure at f/4.8, ISO 200, 36mm focal length. Moon is a 1/30 second exposure at f/5.6, ISO 500 and 300mm focal length. Air temperature was 58 degrees F. A "Hunter's Moon" is defined as the first full moon after the September "Harvest Moon." The name "Hunter's Moon" was adopted because of settlers using the light of the full moon to hunt fatted deer. Nikon D7200 DSLR camera.