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Astronomy Picture of the Day - The Last Full Moon
NASA ^
| 30 Dec, 2023
| Image Credit & Copyright: Giacomo Venturin
Posted on 12/30/2023 12:14:04 PM PST by MtnClimber
Explanation: Known to some in the northern hemisphere as December's Cold Moon or the Long Night Moon, the last full moon of 2023 is rising in this surreal mountain and skyscape. The Daliesque scene was captured in a single exposure with a camera and long telephoto lens near Monte Grappa, Italy. The full moon is not melting, though. Its stretched and distorted appearance near the horizon is caused as refraction along the line of sight changes and creates shifting images or mirages of the bright lunar disk. The changes in atmospheric refraction correspond to atmospheric layers with sharply different temperatures and densities. Other effects of atmospheric refraction produced by the long sight-line to this full moon rising include the thin red rim seen faintly on the distorted lower edge of the Moon and a thin green rim along the top.
TOPICS: Astronomy; Astronomy Picture of the Day; Science
KEYWORDS: apod; nasa
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posted on
12/30/2023 12:14:17 PM PST
by
MtnClimber
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Pinging the APOD list.
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posted on
12/30/2023 12:15:04 PM PST
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MtnClimber
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The setting sun sometimes has a green flash . Interesting to see the same kind of thing happen to the moon!
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posted on
12/30/2023 12:18:48 PM PST
by
Nateman
(If the Pedo Profit Mad Moe (pig pee upon him!) was not the Antichrist then he comes in second.)
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posted on
12/30/2023 12:23:09 PM PST
by
null and void
(I identify as a conspiracy theorist. My personal pronouns are told/you/so.)
To: MtnClimber
As luck would have it, I managed to get a pretty decent photo of a halo moon with my iPhone Christmas evening.
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posted on
12/30/2023 2:49:31 PM PST
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smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> --- )
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posted on
12/30/2023 3:41:21 PM PST
by
MtnClimber
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That is not the moon but a Chinese spy balloon!
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posted on
12/30/2023 11:40:45 PM PST
by
minnesota_bound
(Need more money to buy everything now)
To: minnesota_bound
Someone used their telescopic lens and got this:
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posted on
12/31/2023 1:52:12 AM PST
by
MikelTackNailer
(Fortunately despite aging I've been spared the ravages of maturity.)
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