by Joe Stieber » Sat Feb 28, 2015 6:57 pm
Using Google maps, I found a spot on the southeastern shore of the St. Lawrence River that shows the buildings in much the same alignment as today's APOD. The viewing direction is just a bit south of west
as shown here. Correspondingly, the Venus-Mars-Moon grouping was also a bit south of west that evening.
I'm somewhat surprised that the text mentions "the wide range of brightness" in this HDR (high dynamic range) image, "though details in the Moon's sunlit crescent are washed out." The sunlit crescent in my own
single-frame, non-HDR image of this grouping is similarly washed out. My picture was taken (in New Jersey) at 6:25 pm EST, and since the moon in the APOD is a slightly higher with respect to Venus and Mars (a little more eastward), it must have been taken a short while later.
Using Google maps, I found a spot on the southeastern shore of the St. Lawrence River that shows the buildings in much the same alignment as today's APOD. The viewing direction is just a bit south of west [url=https://www.google.com/maps/@46.820998,-71.180693,3a,15y,246.21h,90.58t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1s9b9EUBD59MmIm0ZoPypHKQ!2e0]as shown here[/url]. Correspondingly, the Venus-Mars-Moon grouping was also a bit south of west that evening.
I'm somewhat surprised that the text mentions "the wide range of brightness" in this HDR (high dynamic range) image, "though details in the Moon's sunlit crescent are washed out." The sunlit crescent in my own [url=http://sjastro.org/images/IMG_4715-adj.JPG]single-frame, non-HDR image[/url] of this grouping is similarly washed out. My picture was taken (in New Jersey) at 6:25 pm EST, and since the moon in the APOD is a slightly higher with respect to Venus and Mars (a little more eastward), it must have been taken a short while later.