Posted on 11/05/2022 1:25:36 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Explanation: Last May 16 the Moon slid through Earth's shadow, completely immersed in the planet's dark umbra for about 1 hour and 25 minutes during a total lunar eclipse. In this composited timelapse view, the partial and total phases of the eclipse were captured as the Moon tracked above the horizon from Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. There it shared a cold and starry south polar night with a surging display of the aurora australis and central Milky Way. In the foreground are the BICEP (right) and South Pole telescopes at the southernmost station's Dark Sector Laboratory. But while polar skies can be spectacular, you won't want to go to the South Pole to view the total lunar eclipse coming up on November 8. Instead, that eclipse can be seen from locations in Asia, Australia, the Pacific, the Americas and Northern Europe. It will be your last chance to watch a total lunar eclipse until 2025.
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I’m confused. There must be some additional photoshop trickery here. If this is time lapsed over an hour and a half, why are the stars also not streaked or horizontally dotted with earth motion like the moon?
very good! glad to see someone else being the fart in the car on these APOD threads! I will further your enquiry and add since when does the moon travel perfectly horizontal of our horizon??
Proof positive NASA Photoshoppers think their audience is stupid.
on second thought... to be fair, I truly dont know the location and direction of the moon at the south pole. It could very well be constantly visible this time of year. but perfectly horizontal like this, I have serious doubts only because of APODs track record of fake photos...
Thanks. I did know about “false color”, for instance, can you give other examples?
I wasn’t saying it was fake, but it does seem like there is some ‘artistic license’ associated with creating this image.
And yes, at the South Pole I would expect the moon apparent motion to be mostly horizontal.
ya well call it what ever makes you feel good and sparing of friend’s feelings. I’ll stick with fake. as stated before, kids and young adults go to APOD to learn. and when they learn from fake pictures it is no different than adults learning from CNN or MSNBC. Fake News is Fake News. Not News with an Artistic License...
I actually think there is something to be learned, or at least observed, from this series of shots. It illustrates some neat orbital motion and geometry. I think calling it false or bad for teaching is a reach, but whatever. It is NOT the same as what we normally would call time lapse photography. However Sometimes looking at data through a different lenses can be insightful.
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