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Yosemite Moonrises and Moonbows

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Ansel Adams kept meticulous records of camera and darkroom data for each of his photographs, including the type of film, lens, filter, aperture, shutter speed, developer, paper, etc. But Adams never recorded the dates for any images, even his most famous works. How can we use astronomical and topographical analysis to determine dates for his famous Yosemite moonrise photographs?

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  1. Department of Physics, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX, USA

    Donald W. Olson

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Olson, D.W. (2014). Yosemite Moonrises and Moonbows. In: Celestial Sleuth. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8403-5_4

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