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In a marriage of science and art, three astronomers have pinpointed the precise time and date of a painting by Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh based on calculations of the moon's position in the picture. Van Gogh's painting depicts a field of haystacks in Provence, France, with a bright orange orb partially showing over a bluff. The vivid picture was known to have been painted sometime in the summer of 1889, toward the end of the most productive, but troubled, period of the artist's life. However, the precise date of its creation has vexed art historians for many years. Even the subject matter was in doubt. For most of the last century the painting was assumed to show the setting sun, not the rising moon. Originally untitled, the painting was known only by its catalog number, F735. It has subsequently been called Rising Moon: Haycocks.