My friend Pat gave me the heads up this week: for one night only, when viewed from his front porch, the silhouette of the capitol building appears centered on the sun. That night was tonight. Even though I had to stretch the limits of my longest telephoto lens from his house southeast of town, I think things turned out pretty well.

This also happens a little bit before June 21st, the longest day of the year. I wasn’t able to catch it at that time. Last year the weather conspired against me and I wasn’t able to catch either occurrence, so tonight was a pretty good treat.

I actually tried last night, but the sun was still a little above the horizon when it crossed the capitol building. It looked like a lollipop of sorts. I may still try to get another shot tomorrow night, with only a portion of the sun behind the capitol building. I’ll have to do it one minute earlier than I did tonight, however; we lose a minute of daylight every day now.