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Columbia River Sunset

It was a gorgeous weekend in Portland and it was also a star party weekend. We volunteered to show people the stars as part of our local astronomy club, so we made our way out to Rooster Rock State Park on Saturday. As is typical for these evenings, the sunset was a great prelude to looking up. It's just too bad the seeing wasn't so great and the moon was a bit bright, but we saw my favorites, Mizar and Alcor.

The sun is almost to the horizon line with a river in the forefront that has some a group of reeds coming out of it near the shore and a pile on further out from the reeds. The sky has some clouds across it and you can see the hill of the far shoreline outlined and dark.