The Monument and the Mystery

Photo date: June 22, 2015. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

The photos below were all taken in front of a memorial in New York City to honor soldiers who died in the Civil War.  Here is the first photo.  (None of the spherical-looking objects shown below is the moon, which was only a crescent moon this night; and as usual, there were no more than about 5 stars visible in the New York City sky.)

Here is the second photo.

 Here is the third photo.

 Here is the fourth photo.

Wow, it looks like I may have stumbled on to an "orb hotspot" here.

There was no fog, mist, rain, or precipitation on this night.  The air quality as listed on airnow.gov was "moderate," with a rating of 52 that almost qualified as "good."  The pollen level listed on pollen.com was "medium" with a level of 6.7.