22 January 2027 · 7:00 pm UTC−7
Aerial viewpoint over Stanley Park's north shore, west of Prospect Point (about 330 m up)
From high above the north shore of Stanley Park, the view runs east across the First Narrows, the narrow entrance to Burrard Inlet and Vancouver's harbour. The Lions Gate Bridge crosses it in one long stride, and on the left the North Shore mountains stand white with winter snow. The bridge takes its name from two of those peaks: in 1889 Judge John Hamilton Gray suggested calling this entrance the Lion's Gate, after the twin peaks known as The Lions.
The moon is the second landmark. In late January the sun sets at 5:53 pm, and in this view a full moon, ninety-nine per cent lit, rises about half an hour later, at 6:27 pm. By seven o'clock it stands four degrees above the east-north-east horizon, left of centre, while the sun lies eleven degrees below the opposite horizon and leaves only a last glow of twilight. A winter full moon sits opposite the low winter sun, so it climbs unusually high once it has cleared the hills. Here the moon is drawn about one and a half times its true size.
Moon surface: NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio (public domain)
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