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@Jlkeeton @BramMeehan @Bellingcat
I did some archeoastronomy on your image. It appears the image was taken in the evening, about an hour after sunset, roughly in mid-August. The image is looking southwest. See screenshot from planetarium sky simulation software (https://stellarium.org/).
I got some help from https://nova.astrometry.net/ which solved the image (astrometry), as can be seen here:
https://nova.astrometry.net/user_images/12688161#annotated
and here:
https://nova.astrometry.net/user_images/12688161#gridhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrometry
That gave me the orientation of the image (looking southwest, so I knew that this was an evening twilight shot, not morning)...and I adjusted the date and time in planetarium software until I got to a time of year when twilight was involved.
BTW, one of the best examples of archeoastronomy happened not too far from you:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonrise,_Hernandez,_New_Mexico#Dating_the_image#NewMexico #ArcheoAstronomy #Astronomy #Photography #Astrophotography #Astrometry #Bellingcat