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[quote=Astronymus post_id=324783 time=1659557247 user_id=130780]
[quote="Fred the Cat" post_id=324733 time=1659417085 user_id=143303]
The moon with accessories often make for fun photos. :thumb_up:
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This is true. :D

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Oh no - it's the dreaded Spider Moon!

[EDIT: posted before seeing the image file name :) Also, "Spider Moon, Spider Moon, friendly neighborhood Spider Moon. Etc."]

[quote="Fred the Cat" post_id=324733 time=1659417085 user_id=143303]
The moon with accessories often make for fun photos. :thumb_up:
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This is true. :D

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[quote=Ann post_id=324759 time=1659466352 user_id=129702]
[quote="orin stepanek" post_id=324746 time=1659445280 user_id=100812]
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Nice Moon shot! Good catch by Sojuel!
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Siamese?? conjoined?? Na!
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Siamese! :mrgreen:
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Love your post and your kitty pictures, Orin! :D

Ann
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Thanks Ann! The cats on the coach were in the write up! The Siamese I looked up ! 8-)

[quote=Louis post_id=324758 time=1659464189 user_id=146641]
Am I misinterpreting something in the caption? It seems to be saying that, since the Moon is illuminated from the bottom, the Sun is below the horizon so the picture was taken before sunrise. Could not the picture have been taken after sunset? Six months earlier??
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No. The angle of the ecliptic would be reversed, so we'd see the crescent on the lower right rather than the lower left. And the features on the Moon would be "upside down" compared with the features in this image.

[quote=Louis post_id=324758 time=1659464189 user_id=146641]
Am I misinterpreting something in the caption? It seems to be saying that, since the Moon is illuminated from the bottom, the Sun is below the horizon so the picture was taken before sunrise. Could not the picture have been taken after sunset? Six months earlier??
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You are correct, it was just left unsaid.

[quote=VictorBorun post_id=324749 time=1659447688 user_id=145500]
I wonder how come that stars are smeared like in a long exposure, Moon is crisp and [i]lights from small Guatemalan towns[/i] are crisp.
The three must move differentially, must they not?
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If the moon was being tracked by the camera and the exposure was long enough then that would explain why the moon is sharp and there are star trails. As for the city lights being sharp it was a seperate exposure.

[quote="orin stepanek" post_id=324746 time=1659445280 user_id=100812]
[img2]https://asterisk.apod.com/download/file.php?id=45296&t=1[/img2]
Nice Moon shot! Good catch by Sojuel!
[img2]https://asterisk.apod.com/download/file.php?id=45297&t=1[/img2]
Siamese?? conjoined?? Na!
[img2]https://asterisk.apod.com/download/file.php?id=45298&t=1[/img2]
Siamese! :mrgreen:
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Love your post and your kitty pictures, Orin! :D

Ann

Am I misinterpreting something in the caption? It seems to be saying that, since the Moon is illuminated from the bottom, the Sun is below the horizon so the picture was taken before sunrise. Could not the picture have been taken after sunset? Six months earlier??

I wonder how come that stars are smeared like in a long exposure, Moon is crisp and [i]lights from small Guatemalan towns[/i] are crisp.
The three must move differentially, must they not?
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Or is Moon in fact smeared?

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Nice Moon shot! Good catch by Sojuel!
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Siamese?? conjoined?? Na!
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Siamese! :mrgreen:

[quote=gmPhil post_id=324737 time=1659427498 user_id=130728]
Congrats to all at APOD for the prize - [url]https://www.iau.org/news/pressreleases/detail/iau2206/[/url]!
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Wow! What a great picture, Mr. Francisco Sojuel. For the first 5 seconds at least of clicking onto APOD I really thought it was Saturn! And which moon of Saturn I wondered had what looks like city lights?

Congrats to all at APOD for the prize - [url]https://www.iau.org/news/pressreleases/detail/iau2206/[/url]!

The moon with accessories often make for fun photos. :thumb_up:
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