Side View of the Nearly Full Moon Behind the Battle Mountain Cross

            I shot this tonight - August 16, 2019 at 9:12PM with a Canon 6D and Sigma 150-600mm lens at 1/200 sec f/6/3 ISO 400 600mm.

The cross in the photo is orientated mostly north-south, so it would never be possible to get the perfect shot of the moon rising (or setting) behind it, but the moon does shift a bit north or south of east depending on the time of year.

I plan on shooting this again sometime in a few months or so when the moon is at a more northern or southern angle so that one can actually tell that the object in the foreground is a cross and not a pole.

Battle Mountain got its name from a battle that was held at a mountain nearby called Mule Hill in 1846. Mule Hill/Starvation Mountain got its name after the battle when the soldiers ran out of food and had to kill some of the mules in order to eat. In 1966, a group of local churchgoers put the cross on the mountain. In the 80’s the cross fell down and was replaced by a man named Jack Templeton who built it in his backyard. He lived below the trailhead and would frequent the hill regularly. The cross was actually funded by a Jack in the Box nearby.

-- Thanks to Hidden San Diego for the above history lesson.

While the mountain was once private property, the developer of the newer subdivision below the mountain donated the land to the county and it's now a public park. To satisfy the constitutional separation of church and state requirement, the land immediately below the cross belongs to a non-profit organization. The non-profit also maintains the lighting for the cross.

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Taken in: United States / California / San Bernardo (show map)

Taken on: August 16, 2019

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