Eloping
Louis & Lindsay
Mount Baker
The fourteenth of September
Two thousand twenty-six
Six o'clock in the evening
Until you are married
At six o'clock the sun will still be twelve degrees above the western horizon.
Every star on this chart will already be there.
Three thousand nine hundred and fifty-three of them
Venus, and a moon sixteen percent lit, six point seven degrees apart.
They will be the only two things you can see.
They set together, an hour after
Straight above your heads, Vega — sixty-five degrees up.
The Summer Triangle, open right over the mountain.
Invisible, and exactly there
The evening, in full
14 September 2026
- Position
- 48.7768° N, 121.8145° W
- Elevation
- 3,286 m
- The moment
- 18:00 PDT
- Sun altitude
- +12.6°
- Moon
- Waxing crescent, 16.2% lit
- Moon & Venus
- 6.7° apart
- Sunset
- 19:21
- Venus set
- 20:08
- Moon set
- 20:20
- Full dark
- 21:10
- Stars above horizon
- 3,953
All of it overhead, the whole time. Look up anyway.
Computed for the exact instant
from the Yale Bright Star Catalogue
and the JPL DE421 planetary ephemeris