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Credit & Copyright: Miguel Claro
Explanation:
The Sun set on
Friday
the 13th as a full Honey Moon rose,
captured in this well-planned time-lapse sequence.
Lisbon, Portugal's Christ the King monument
is in the foreground, about 6 kilometers distant from
camera and telephoto lens.
During the days surrounding today's
solstice (June 21, 10:51 UT) the Sun
follows its highest arc through northern hemisphere skies as it travels
along the ecliptic plane.
At night the ecliptic plane is low, and
the Full Moon's path close to the ecliptic was also low,
the rising Moon separating more slowly from the distant horizon.
Northern moon watchers were likely to experience the mysterious
Moon Illusion,
the lunar orb
appearing impossibly large while near the horizon.
But the photo sequence shows the Moon's
apparent size did not
not change at all.
Its light was initially scattered by the long line-of-sight through
the atmosphere though, and a deeper reddened color
gave way to a paler gold as the Full Moon rose
into the night.
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