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Credit & Copyright: Babak Tafreshi
(TWAN)
Explanation:
This well-planned telephoto timelapse captures July's Full Moon rise
across outer Boston Harbor, Massachusetts,
planet
Earth.
In the foreground, the historic terrestrial beacon is
known as Boston
Light.
July's Full Moon is
known to some
as a Thunder Moon, likely a
reference to the sounds of the northern summer month's
typically stormy weather.
But the eastern sky was clear for this
video sequence.
Near the horizon, the long sight-line through
atmospheric layers
filters and refracts the moonlight,
causing the rising Moon's reddened color, ragged edges and distorted
shape.
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