Monday, June 13, 2011

Mooned

These images of the moon show how it appears to change color as it rises in the evening sky. According to Earth Science Picture of the Day,

The photo sequence above shows the full Moon on April 17, 2011 as observed from Leiden, Netherlands. The left-most photo of a carrot-colored Moon was snapped just after moonrise. Here the Moon is only seven degrees above the eastern horizon. At center, the peach-hued Moon is well clear of the horizon but still low in the sky -- 14 degrees above the horizon. The photo at right was captured two hours after the first photo when the silvery Moon was 19 degrees above the horizon.


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