Just have to share NASA's magical Christmas Day image, taken ten days earlier in Piemonte, Italy. The photographer spent six years trying to capture this glorious alignment: Cathedral, Mountain, Moon. Image Credit & Copyright: Valerio Minato
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Or at least once every nineteen years. I'm tempted to actually calculate the ephemeris for this photo. I can probably work out the focal length of the telescope/lens used. (The mountain is only about 30 arcminutes wide, for example.)
Ok, I calculated the ephemeris... this alignment between the Bascilica of Superga and the peak of Monviso, at moonset, with the crescent moon... happened five times in 2022, and eight times in 2023. It will happen again in three days, and then again next month in February.
So... it's not that rare.
Considering that this photo was after sunset, it must have been taken on December 14, 2023 17:41 CET (about 80 mins after sunset). December 13 at 16:51 CET is the other possibility, but that's only 30 minutes after sunset.
We build our world on layers or tragedy. Humanity's main occupation these days seems to be the destruction of life and beauty, so I like to celebrate it whenever possible.
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So... it's not that rare.