FEATURE : Photo
FULL MOON ON
A MANHATTAN
ONE WAY STREET
Recently, the world celebrated the 45th
anniversary of the moon landing, when
the crew of the Apollo 11 spaceship
took man’s first steps on lunar soil. User
Jaabir Ahmed (@jaabircan) doesn’t
own a spaceship, so he went looking
for the moon in an unlikely place and
found it, present on a one way street in
Manhattan.
@jaabircan
To capture his photo, Jaabir would
literally need the stars to align. The
event he waited for, or perhaps lucked
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into, is a bi-annual event that takes
place near the Summer Solstice known
as Manhattanhenge, when you can
look down any of the East-West streets
of Manhattan and see the setting sun
nesting between two lanes of milehigh skyscrapers. It was a strange
convergence of events for Jaabir, the
Summer Solstice, Manhattanhenge,
a full moon in the sky, and a gorgeous
evening on the week of the moon landing
anniversary.