Our closest celestial neighbour has kept us company for at least four billion years and has entertained our imagination in a variety of ways. It certainly has been involved in our maturation as a species with man's first step on a body beyond our planet during the latter part of the twentienth century and will, inevitably, be our first stop prior to any sort of manned travel to a further celestial body such as Mars. The moon has been a great source of education about our own planet's evolutionary history; it has entertained many inquisitive minds from earlier cultures and generations about the universe in general and man's role in particular; it has enriched the minds of young children taking their first look through a telescope and continues to impact our lives in ways we may or may not readily recognize including tidal forces and various natural rhythms and cycles.

Note: The image below is an extension of a prolonged effort to capture the rising full moon and Sun against notable foregrounds in Greece. The primary task in such an exercise is to very precisely reverse engineer the perspective of the foreground of interest with respect to its physical azimuth and altitude from my shooting location approximately 19.94 kilometers west of the wind turbine farm at Buffalo in southern Euvoia. Such a distance was both desireable and ideal so as to have a greater balance between the apparent size of the wind turbines in the foreground and the rising full moon in the background and as indicated by the image below.

Note: For additional photos and time series from the same session below, click here and here.

Note: The full moon below with an apparent diameter of 33.48 arc-seconds and at a distance of 357,234 km from Earth is the largest perigee full moon since 1948 with the next such opportunity being available in 2034.

Note: For additional photos of the sun and/or full moon against other well-known Greek archaeological grounds and sites, please click here.