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Astronomy Picture of the Day - Direct Projection: The Moon in My Hands
APOD.NASA.gov ^ | 28 Feb, 2022 | Image Credit & Copyright: Jeff Graphy

Posted on 02/28/2022 2:46:06 PM PST by MtnClimber

Explanation: You don't have to look through a telescope to know where it's pointing. Allowing the telescope to project its image onto a large surface can be useful because it dilutes the intense brightness of very bright sources. Such dilution is useful for looking at the Sun, for example during a solar eclipse. In the featured single-exposure image, though, it is a too-bright full moon that is projected. This February full moon occurred two weeks ago and is called the Snow Moon by some northern cultures. The projecting instrument is the main 62-centimeter telescope at the Saint-VΓ©ran Observatory high in the French Alps. Seeing a full moon directly is easier because it is not too bright, although you won't see this level of detail. Your next chance will occur on March 17.


TOPICS: Astronomy; Astronomy Picture of the Day; Science
KEYWORDS: nasa
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For more detail go to the link and click on the image for a high definition image. You can then move the magnifying glass cursor then click to zoom in and click again to zoom out. When zoomed in you can scan by moving the side bars on the bottom and right side of the image.

1 posted on 02/28/2022 2:46:06 PM PST by MtnClimber
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2 posted on 02/28/2022 2:46:22 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on mycreen name for my FR home page.)
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To: 21stCenturion; 21twelve; 4everontheRight; abb; AFB-XYZ; AFPhys; America_Right; AZ .44 MAG; ...
Pinging the APOD list.

πŸͺ 🌟 🌌 πŸ”


3 posted on 02/28/2022 2:47:00 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on mycreen name for my FR home page.)
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Cool! That’s Tycho down there in the lower left. What an impact crater.


4 posted on 02/28/2022 2:56:20 PM PST by jmacusa (America. Founded by geniuses. Now governed by idiots. )
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That’s nothing. I swallowed the Milky Way.
Should have taken a picture.


5 posted on 02/28/2022 3:15:24 PM PST by DannyTN
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There’s a brown spot near the top center. I think he drooled on it.


6 posted on 02/28/2022 3:16:34 PM PST by DannyTN
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The Chinese don’t already have a base generating pollution that would account for the brown spot do they?


7 posted on 02/28/2022 3:18:11 PM PST by DannyTN
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To: MtnClimber

bttt


8 posted on 02/28/2022 3:19:28 PM PST by BenLurkin ((The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.))
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To: DannyTN

I think that that is a deposit of iron rich regolith.


9 posted on 03/01/2022 5:19:55 AM PST by jmcenanly ("The more corrupt the state, the more laws." Tacitus, Publius Cornelius)
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The lunatic is in the hall.......................


10 posted on 03/01/2022 5:47:49 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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The lunatic is in the hall.......................

You lock the door and throw away the key

There's someone in my head but it's not me.

11 posted on 03/01/2022 5:53:41 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on mycreen name for my FR home page.)
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