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I'm desperately trying to figure out where the SuperMoon will rise and if I can get a good composition while in Marquette MI. Any tips or tools?
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Celeste
“As my artist’s statement explains, my work is utterly incomprehensible and is therefore full of deep significance” ~Calvin + Hobbes -
I use an App called Sunquest on the IPhone..
It seems to have become a money earner. it used to be free...
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I have PhotoPils (free!) and it is really powerful and way smarter than me. The lighthouse that I have had in a few recent sunrise pics would look awesome with a super moon in the shot but my little brain is struggling trying to figure it out! 😀 I've got a couple of days to figure it out.
This lighthouse (this is facing ESE)
Seems perfectly positioned, if the moon rises ~ where the sun does, nut I think it will be further south.
Celeste
“As my artist’s statement explains, my work is utterly incomprehensible and is therefore full of deep significance” ~Calvin + HobbesComment
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You could use an astronomy app to get the compass point where the moon will rise for the time and location. I use SkySafari Pro on my iPad and the free version on my phone. This is what it gives for your location for the moon rise and sunset directions. It looks like the moon will rise between ENE and NE compass directions. You could go out the night before and see where it rises in relation to the horizon there then adjust for it moving each day, to the left I think. Good luck!
Bill
In SkySafari in can get up the Moon info panel and it shows rise and set times. Next to those times in the interface there’s a clock symbol and you click that and it shows the sky view at that time and you can see the compass directions on the horizon line. For these screen shots I set my location to where you are and the date of the super moon. I’m pretty sure the time shown is local time there, but YMMV with DST changes going on around now!
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Does this help? Indicates compass bearing of moonrise for each day, assuming you have an accurate compass of course😄
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My layman's interpretation of the data shows that it is rising later each day, and rising more towards the North East. The readings all relate to True North to which you need to apply the magnetic declination of - 4.5deg at your location. For a more accurate understanding I would need to ask my astrophysicist neice Dr BeckyLast edited by Nutmeg47; 2 November 2025, 01:53 PM.PeterComment
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Although too late for your specific query, I was just watching this you-tube video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVJE6Jx5zFk) Around the 5minute mark he (Brent Hall - now an OM user) is trying to set up for a full moon rising over a mountain and pull out his phone with a good looking app that overlays the moon path on the actual view through the phone camera. The app is "Sun Surveyor" which while not free is cheap. Not sure if it has any other astro features.Comment
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