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Mollie got around. There are 7 mountain peaks in Utah named after her (some sources say 11; 7 locations are documented in Wikipedia) along with several other geographical features with less provocative names. This is the one in SW Utah near Hurricane, Utah. It has the virtue of symmetry, so it looks like its namesake no matter what direction you view it from.
#1: Moon over Mollie
#2: Moon every 2 minutes
#3: 4 shots showing the true darkness of the landscape
...#3a: sun nearly ready to set
...#3b: earth's shadow and the Belt of Venus
...#3c: blue hour
...#3d: near the end of civil twilight
#4: midway through nautical twilight (@135mm, f/4.4, 1 sec, ISO 400)
The rest is technical details if you're interested. Photos #1 and #2 are derived from a timelapse taken every 10 seconds for 13.3 minutes (= 80 frames) starting when the Moon began rising at the onset of nautical twilight, with the central frame used for shot #1 and frames spaced apart every 2 minutes (using the central frame as a reference point) for #2. #3 shows the changes in light during twilight before moonrise, and #4 was the last shot taken before leaving the site.
All photos except #4 have the same exposure time. Since moonrise started so late (inside nautical twilight), to keep some kind of detail in the Moon during the timelapse the shutter speed had to be kept short, which pretty much turned everything else black, so the landscape and sky in #1 and #2 are composited in from #3d. Also, all photos have been contrast enhanced (but not brightness) to compensate for its loss with distance; this also helped recover the moon markings in the latter frames of the timelapse.
Photo data:
Panasonic G7, Lumix 100-300 lens @ 193mm, photo tripod
6 x (f/4.9, 1/100 sec, ISO 1600)
stacked in startrails.exe, postprocessing in Paint Shop Pro X2
Photographer's website:
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