Astronomy Picture of the Day

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                                 2021 May 27
    [2]See Explanation. Clicking on the picture will download the highest
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                          Mid-Eclipse and Milky Way
                 Image Credit & [3]Copyright: [4]John Kraus

   Explanation: [5]May's perigee Full Moon slid through Earth's shadow
   yesterday entertaining night skygazers in regions [6]around the
   Pacific. Seen from western North America, it sinks toward the rugged
   Sierra Nevada mountain range in this [7]time-lapse series of the total
   lunar eclipse. Low on the western horizon the Moon was captured at
   mid-eclipse with two separate exposures. Combined they reveal the
   [8]eclipsed Moon's reddened color against the dark night sky and the
   diffuse starlight band of the Milky Way. Frames taken every five
   minutes from the fixed camera follow the surrounding progression of the
   eclipse partial phases. In the foreground a radio telescope dish at
   California's [9]Owen's Valley Radio Observatory points skyward.

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References

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   2. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2105/TLEMay2021Kraus.jpg
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   4. https://www.johnkrausphotos.com/
   5. https://moon.nasa.gov/news/161/super-blood-moon-your-questions-answered/
   6. https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4906
   7. https://www.johnkrausphotos.com/Galleries/Space/Astrophotography/
   8. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap200124.html
   9. https://www.ovro.caltech.edu/index.php?page=history
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  16. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod.rss
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  18. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html
  19. http://asterisk.apod.com/discuss_apod.php?date=210527
  20. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap210528.html
  21. http://www.phy.mtu.edu/faculty/Nemiroff.html
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