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Credit & Copyright: Lorenzo Busilacchi
Explanation:
Near the horizon
the full moon often seems to loom large,
swollen in appearance by the famous
Moon illusion.
But time-lapse image sequences demonstrate that the Moon's angular size doesn't really change as it rises or sets.
Its color does, though.
Recording a frame about every 60 seconds,
this image also shows how
red the Sun can look
while low on the horizon.
The featured montage was taken from
Cagliari,
Sardinia,
Italy,
the day after June's
Strawberry Moon, a full moon dubbed a supermoon due to
its slightly larger-than-usual angular size.
This Strawberry Supermoon
is seen rising behind the
Devil's Saddle,
a mountain named for the
unusual moon-sized dip seen just to the
right of the rising
moon.
A shrinking line-of-sight through planet Earth's
dense and dusty atmosphere shifted the moonlight from
strawberry red through honey-colored and paler yellowish hues.
That change seems appropriate for a northern June Full Moon
also known as the
Strawberry or
Honey Moon.
A Thunder Supermoon --
the third of
four supermoons in 2022 --
will occur later this month.
Today's Adventure Link: Click on "Cagliari"
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