Credit & Copyright: Valerio Minato
Explanation:
Single shots like this require planning.
The first step is to realize that such an amazing
triple-alignment actually takes place.
The second step is to find the best location to photograph it.
But it was the third step: being there at exactly the right time --
and when the sky was clear -- that was the hardest.
Five times over six years the photographer tried and found
bad weather.
Finally, just ten days ago, the
weather
was perfect, and a photographic dream was realized.
Taken in
Piemonte,
Italy,
the cathedral in the foreground is the
Basilica of Superga,
the mountain
in the middle is
Monviso, and, well,
you know which moon is in the background.
Here, even though the
setting Moon was captured in a crescent
phase,
the exposure was long enough for doubly reflected
Earthlight,
called the
da Vinci glow, to illuminate the entire top of the
Moon.
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