Astronomy Picture of the Day -- Surreal Moon

NASA ^ | August 14, 2014 | (see photo credit)

[SunkenCiv]

Explanation: Big, bright, and beautiful, a Full Moon near perigee, the closest point in its elliptical orbit around our fair planet, rose on August 10. This remarkable picture records the scene with a dreamlike quality from the east coast of the United States. The picture is actually a composite of 10 digital frames made with exposures from 1/500th second to 1 second long, preserving contrast and detail over a much wider than normal range of brightness. At a perigee distance of a mere 356,896 kilometers, August's Full Moon was the closest, and so the largest and most super, of the three Full Moons nearest perigee in 2014 now popularly known as supermoons. But if you missed August's super supermoon, the next not-quite-so supermoon will be September 8. Then, near the full lunar phase the Moon's perigee will be a slightly more distant 358,387 kilometers. That's only about 0.4 percent less super (farther and smaller) than the super supermoon.

[SunkenCiv]

[Credit & Copyright: Jerry Lodriguss (Catching the Light)]

[SunkenCiv]

Get luna about the moona.

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[dalebert]

beautiful

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Cool Beans! :)

[BenLurkin]

Would make great “wallpaper” for a computer screen.

[RegulatorCountry]

http://youtu.be/K1SFoFbeYMc

[dr_lew]

Bah! "A composite of 10 digital frames"

Here's a real picture mateys, Arrrr.

Dec 18, 2013, with Jupiter:

[The Cajun]

Great picture.
Any moonrise when viewed just coming up over the horizon always draws my attention for a while.

[The Cajun]

Good pic with the clouds not hiding Jupiter.

[dr_lew]

The clouds were thin and Jupiter was shining through them, for the most part. The ring around the moon was due to forward scattering, which produced the colors. It was a fascinating view and I took dozens of shots, as the scene shifted every few seconds with the movement of the clouds. Trying to capture time in bottle!

[SunkenCiv]

Ooooh, ahhhh!

[BenLurkin]

Bttt

[DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis]

beautiful

[a fool in paradise]

Reminds me of this by Steichen:

[Moltke]

Very nice. Saw the moon and Venus very close together in June. One night they seemed to be seperated by only a few Venus diameters. A humble 8x30 pair of binoculars (of good quality) already shows a lot!

[To Hell With Poverty]

Oh, now that is beautiful!