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Astronomy Picture of the Day - The Falcon and the Hunter's Moon
APOD.NASA.gov ^ | 14 Oct, 2022 | Image Credit & Copyright: Michael Seeley

Posted on 10/14/2022 1:31:25 PM PDT by MtnClimber

Explanation: The Full Moon of October 9th was the second Full Moon after the northern hemisphere autumnal equinox, traditionally called the Hunter's Moon. According to lore, the name is a fitting one because this Full Moon lights the night during a time for hunting in preparation for the coming winter months. In this snapshot, a nearly full Hunter's Moon was captured just after sunset on October 8, rising in skies over Florida's Space Coast. Rising from planet Earth a Falcon 9 rocket pierces the bright lunar disk from the photographer's vantage point. Ripples and fringes along the edge of the lunar disk appear as supersonic shock waves generated by the rocket's passage change the atmosphere's index of refraction.


TOPICS: Astronomy; Astronomy Picture of the Day; Science
KEYWORDS: nasa
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1 posted on 10/14/2022 1:31:25 PM PDT by MtnClimber
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2 posted on 10/14/2022 1:31:43 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen 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.

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3 posted on 10/14/2022 1:32:19 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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Hunter’s moon - the FBI is still looking for it


4 posted on 10/14/2022 1:34:38 PM PDT by NWFree (Somebody has to say it 🤪)
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That moon is growing a beard.

I’m not sure what the Falcon tail is growing. Looks like something from Uranus.


5 posted on 10/14/2022 1:39:54 PM PDT by DannyTN
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I’m not sure what the Falcon tail is growing. Looks like something from Uranus.

Well, remember it's Hunter we're dealing with here . . . :-)

6 posted on 10/14/2022 1:48:57 PM PDT by AFB-XYZ (Stand up, or bend over)
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I thought we saw it on his laptop, during one of his drug fueled exhibitions when he was buck naked…


7 posted on 10/14/2022 2:52:57 PM PDT by telescope115 (Proud member of the ANTIFAuci movement. )
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bkmk


8 posted on 10/14/2022 3:24:47 PM PDT by Donkey Odious ( Adapt, improvise, and overcome - now a motto for us all.)
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The Falcon9. Thrusting its way through space on another penetrating mission.


9 posted on 10/14/2022 3:54:31 PM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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Thanks!

The apparent fur on the chin of the moon is a bit creepy!


10 posted on 10/14/2022 8:03:38 PM PDT by Pete from Shawnee Mission ( )
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