Waxing Crescent Moon Over Campbell Mithun Tower

Submitted by Ric Rosow

The moon made a repeat appearance to set over the top of the Campbell Mithun Tower early on the morning of December 12th. After seeing it over the US Bank Stadium during the evening, I projected that its trajectory would take it low over the Tower around 12:30 A.M. It did just that.

This photograph is the result of processing one image twice. I processed it first to bring out the detail in the surface of the moon. That left the rest of the image in the dark of night. I processed the same image a second time to increase the exposure so that the Tower was visible, just as it was when I was viewing the scene. That blew out all the detail in the moon and made it a white hot featureless object. I could have used two images and then blended them together. I took those types of images but when it came to processing, it was more straight forward and effective to use one image.

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The Tower itself is very interesting at night. When lit up this way at night it takes on the features of a mask of a lion’s face. When viewing the Tower at night I immediately think of the lion from a rather famous play that premiered in Minneapolis in 1997 before going onto Broadway. If you did not see the play on one of its repeat appearances here, then perhaps you saw the movie or have heard the music.

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