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Astronomy Picture of the Day - South Pacific Shadowset
NASA ^ | 24 Aug, 2024 | Image Credit & Copyright: Jin Wang

Posted on 08/24/2024 1:03:20 PM PDT by MtnClimber

Explanation: The full Moon and Earth's shadow set together in this island skyscape. The alluring scene was captured Tuesday morning, August 20, from Fiji, South Pacific Ocean, planet Earth. For early morning risers shadowset in the western sky is a daily apparition. Still, the grey-blue shadow is often overlooked in favor of a brighter eastern horizon. Extending through the dense atmosphere, Earth's setting shadow is bounded above by a pinkish glow or anti-twilight arch. Known as the Belt of Venus, the arch's lovely color is due to backscattering of reddened light from the opposite horizon's rising Sun. Of course, the setting Moon's light is reddened by the long sight-line through the atmosphere. But on that date the full Moon could be called a seasonal Blue Moon, the third full Moon in a season with four full Moons. And even though the full Moon is always impressive near the horizon, August's full Moon is considered by some the first of four consecutive full Supermoons in 2024.


TOPICS: Astronomy; Astronomy Picture of the Day; Science
KEYWORDS: apod; nasa
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1 posted on 08/24/2024 1:03:20 PM PDT by MtnClimber
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2 posted on 08/24/2024 1:03:39 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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Pinging the APOD list

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3 posted on 08/24/2024 1:05:30 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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VERY pretty!


4 posted on 08/24/2024 1:26:57 PM PDT by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
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Those palm Trees look about belly high.


5 posted on 08/24/2024 1:41:58 PM PDT by left that other site ("Providence" ain't just a city in Rhode Island.)
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Beautiful.


6 posted on 08/24/2024 2:20:46 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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Would love to be there.


7 posted on 08/24/2024 4:35:45 PM PDT by AFB-XYZ (Two options: 1) Stand up, or 2) Bend over)
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Note that below the equator, the moon appears upside down. If you rotate the photo 180°, you can see the familiar “man in the moon”


8 posted on 08/24/2024 7:11:45 PM PDT by zeebee
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Beautiful! It’ll make a great wall poster.


9 posted on 08/24/2024 8:36:32 PM PDT by Deaf and Discerning
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