Chimney Rock National Monument, Colorado, USA

Chimney Rock (left) and Companion Rock (right), with a full moon rising, at Chimney Rock National Monument, in Chimney Rock State Park, in San Juan National Forest, South West Colorado, USA. Every 18.6 years, the moon pauses and rises in the same place for 3 years, between Chimney Rock and Companion Rock as viewed from the Great House Pueblo, in a Major Lunar Standstill. The ridge was an ancestral Puebloan site occupied 925-1125 AD by around 2000 Indians. Chimney Rock was made a National Monument in 2012 and is listed on the US National Register of Historic Places and the Colorado State Register of Historic Properties. Picture by Howard Rowe / Manuel Cohen

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13434365

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45113725

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7360px x 4912px (5.8MB)

Credit

Manuel Cohen / Mary Evans

Source

Photograph by Manuel Cohen