Great picture!
I've had this on the desktop at work for some time now, and there are several things of interest to me that I wanted like to point out, perhaps have some others correct my miscalculations if needed.
Note that all of this is based on the coordinates <<47°04'56.30" N 9°26'53.21" E>> given in the text.
While at first I assumed the bright spot on the horizon 3/4 of the way to the right was immediately "above" the yet-to-rise Sun, following a line orthogonal to the Moon's terminator slightly overshoots this bright spot (if the sun is below it, the line should
undershoot it). Using Google Earth and
Yoursky, I found the sun's azimuth is actually to the left of the tallest peak in the photo, and will later rise up to the right, finally appearing just to the left of center-photo. This means, however, that the aforementioned bright spot is actually a sun-dog, 22° from the sun.
Are sun-dogs allowed to appear before the sun has actually risen? Or has the sun indeed risen, and is hidden by the mountain? In that case, this photo also gets the distinction of being a daytime photo of Venus!
The "
![Shocked :shock:](./images/smilies/icon_eek.gif)
eyes
![Shocked :shock:](./images/smilies/icon_eek.gif)
" mentioned above are indeed from this massive antenna:
Finally, and tenuously, if one zooms into the full resolution image, there's a very faint, small splotch in the sky above the "eyes". Is it possible this is one of the brighter stars of Sagittarius?
Thanks for the photo, and for APOD, and for Starship Asterisk!
Sam