Supermoon Rises Behind a Tree — Nikolakakos Panagiotis
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Moon Halo over Halo Island
“The colorful 22-degree atmospheric halo of the moon is captured together with planets Venus and Jupiter over the strait of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf, Well known because of political tides over the middle east region.
The name Hormuz is an island in this area. Hormuz is a piece of Paradise, believed by local citizens of the island. The island has a historic castle and eye catching natural scenes, but nowadays most of the people doesn’t even know there is an island that the strait named after it; The island is faded in memories like a halo. The yellowish lights on the horizon belong to Qeshm island. While the week I was in Hormuz island I saw halo moon every night, considering high evaporation rate during days its not a hardly seen phenomenon in Hormuz.” — Mahdi Zamani
Playing with the Crescent Moon-Jupiter conjunction — Stefano De Rosa
Orion and Winter Triangle
In a moonlit winter night of Hungary, stars of constellations Orion, Canis Major (the Great Dog), and Canis Minor (Little Dog) appear above an ancient castle ruins in Veszprem county.
Three brighter stars of this part of the sky forms a large asterism known as the Winter Triangle. — Tamas Ladanayi
Jupiter-Moon Conjunction — Marc Deldem
Solar Eclipse’s Shadow on Earth
Most visible towards the upper side of the image, that is the moon’s shadow over Earth.
On May 10, 2013, the sun experienced what’s called an annular eclipse — when the moon moves directly in front of the sun, but doesn’t obscure it completely. This leaves a thin, fiery ring, the annulus, visible around the outside. This eclipse was only visible from the South Pacific, along an approximately 100-mile-wide track that traverses Australia, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and the Gilbert Islands. Other areas in Australia and Indonesia saw a partial eclipse, in which the moon blocks a much smaller region of the sun.
Credit: NASA/Goddard/MODIS Rapid Response Team
NASA’s Terra satellite didn’t observe the eclipse directly, but it did see the moon’s shadow darkening the region northeast of Australia including the Solomon Islands. This image was captured by Terra’s Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer on May 9, 2013, at 23:30 UTC (7:30 p.m. EDT).
Waning Crescent Moon rises at Bayou Point in Arkabutla — Hancock Brian
Cassini spies Mimas hiding in Saturn’s rings
Credit: NASA / JPL / SSI / Gordan Ugarkovic
A Tree on the Moon
The Full Moon rises above the Temple of Poseidon (450-440 BC) in southern Greece.. — Anthony Ayiomamtis
Partial Lunar Eclipse
Mosaic of April partial lunar eclipse - first and last shot is approximatelly 75 minutes from mid-eclipse (penubral phase), central mosaic is made from shots captured every 2 minutes. Central image is from the maximum of eclipse (20:07 UT). The orange color of right part of mosaic is caused by low Moon above horizon. — Petr Horálek
Pannonhalma Moonrise
The Full Moon rises above Pannonhalma Archabbey (Territorial Abbey of Pannonhalma) in Hungary. The World Heritage Site is one of the oldest historical monuments in Hungary. — Tamas Ladanyi
In this high resolution view of totality during the November 2012 solar eclipse, as the moon moves across the sun, you can see the diamond ring, bailey’s beads, prominences, the solar chromosphere (the thin red surface layer of the sun) and the inner solar corona.
