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Ptah

(33,032 posts) Sun Jan 28, 2024, 03:12 PM Jan 2024

Astronomy Picture of the Day - 2024 January 27 - Full Observatory Moon

A popular name for January's full moon in the northern hemisphere is the Full Wolf Moon. As the new year's first full moon, it rises over Las Campanas Observatory in this dramatic Earth-and-moonscape. Peering from the foreground like astronomical eyes are the observatory's twin 6.5 meter diameter Magellan telescopes. The snapshot was captured with telephoto lens across rugged terrain in the Chilean Atacama Desert, taken at a distance of about 9 miles from the observatory and about 240,000 miles from the lunar surface. Of course the first full moon of the lunar new year, known to some as the Full Snow Moon, will rise on February 24.

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240127.html

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Astronomy Picture of the Day - 2024 January 27 - Full Observatory Moon (Original Post) Ptah Jan 2024 OP

I think that would give me chills, watching it rise slowly above the surface. erronis Jan 2024 #1

erronis

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1. I think that would give me chills, watching it rise slowly above the surface.

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Sun Jan 28, 2024, 03:23 PM

Jan 2024

(Assuming it's rising, not sinking.)

That would be a fun video to watch. I'm going to try and do time-lapse photography on April 8 here in northern Vermont when that same moon slowly occludes the sun.

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