Well at least we now know why @A_Touch_of_Cloth spends so long perusing pipe fitting catalogues.
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Were you searching 'G spot ’ for the first picture?
Do I spot a flange separator in there?
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A computer magazine that I subscribed to in the mid 80s was presumably struggling to make its numbers, so resorted to having very scantily clad women holding Commodore 64s and the like on its cover. Really bizarre, and probably quite formative for a 13 year old before the days of really accessible porn.
I have struggled and failed to find archive images 
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Zzap64?
Neither of those, it wasn’t specific to a particular computer, had Spectrum stuff as well etc
Clearly
Quick check:
Near as dammit the diameter of the moon subtends half a degree at the surface of the earth, i.e. 8.7 milliradians. Holding a plastic ruler up to my monitor screen, the armspan of the statue measures 24mm and the diameter of the moon measures 91mm so the armspan of the statue is subtending 8.7*24/91=2.3 milliradians. Wikipedia says the actual armspan of the statue is 28m. So for that to subtend 2.3mrad the camera would need to be 28/0.0023 metres away from it, which is 12.2km. A mile is 1.61km so 12.2km is 7.6 miles, which is near enough to 7 miles for government work.
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Took the guy around three years to get the perfect shot.
Leonardo Sens Archives — Colossal (thisiscolossal.com)
I was a bit less scientific when working out the distance…
I’m not surprised. The hard part isn’t working out how far away you need to be - that can be done with a ‘back of the envelope’ sum, as above. The challenge is waiting for a date when the moon will be full and then working out where to stand so the disc’s lower edge will just ‘sit’ on the statue’s arms as it passes behind the statue. If you’re standing in the wrong place it might look like this
(Wikimedia commons image from here File:Unique Moment with the Moon and Christ the Redeemer 3.jpg - Wikimedia Commons) or the disc could be high above the statue.
You also need the viewpoint to be accessible (not on some millionaire’s estate or in a murderous favela) and, of course, you’re screwed if the weather’s cloudy or if passing aircraft ruin the shot.
Then there’s the timing. Most of the moon’s motion across the sky is due to the rotation of the earth, which is 15 degrees per hour. The moon’s only half a degree across, so in 2 minutes it will have moved by its own diameter. If you want to catch it centred on the statue you probably only have 10-20 seconds in which to take the pic.
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Andre the Giant & Hillbilly Jim vs Big John Studd & King Kong Bundy, Madison Square Garden 1985 . . .
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I could 'ave 'em
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