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... but a bigger encirclement was in progress as smoke from a wildfire that had started only 3 hours earlier 100 miles to the north rapidly traversed the distance to our area to cover 3/4 of the sky and tinging it red by the time these photos were taken (and turned the sky overcast by midnight).
In image #3 note the small star next to the Moon on the right--that's kappa Geminorum (mag. 3.6). I wondered if it could ever be occulted by the Moon--after all, it missed being covered by the Moon by only 40 arcminutes this time. So I ran some simulations in Sky Safari v.6 on an iPad Pro to find out. Not only can kappa be occulted by the Moon, the Moon can appear on its other side by at least 2 Full-Moon widths away (I didn't test any further), which did actually occur in late June of last year.
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#1-#3: separate photos as twilight progressed
#4: center of #3 enlarged to 1:1
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Panasonic G9, Lumix 20mm lens, tripod
... (f/2, 0.1-1.0 sec, ISO 400)
... date: June 16, 2026 9:30-10:00pm MDT (sunset 8:56pm, night 10:49pm)
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