Half Dome at blue hour from Glacier Point, Yosemite National Park, California, lit by moonlight with stars coming out.

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I'd gone up for sunset and it was flat, no clouds to work with. So I stayed to shoot stars over Half Dome, and the moon came up nearly full and washed the sky out. What I got instead was the last of the sunset on one side of the dome and the moon lighting the other.

Latitude: 37°44′ N
Temperature: 68 °F / 20 °C
Elevation: 7,214 ft / 2,199 m