Astronomy Picture of the Day

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                              2022 November 10
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                             Total Lunar Eclipse
    Image Credit: [3]KPNO / NOIRLab / [4]NSF / [5]AURA / [6]Petr Horalek
                     ([7]Institute of Physics in Opava)

   Explanation: [8]The beginning, middle, and end of a journey through
   planet Earth's colorful [9]umbral shadow is captured in this timelapse
   composite image of a [10]total lunar eclipse. Taken on [11]November 8
   from Kitt Peak National Observatory this eclipse's 1 hour and 25 minute
   long total phase starts on the right and finishes on the left. Reddened
   sunlight, scattered into the central shadow by Earth's dusty atmosphere
   produces the dramatic dark red hues reflected by the lunar disk. For
   this eclipse, additional reddening is likely due to scattering from ash
   lingering in the atmosphere after a large [12]volcanic eruption in the
   southern Pacific earlier this year. Seen at the right and left, the
   Earth's shadow is still lighter along its edge though. [13]That faint
   bluish fringe along the lunar limb is colored by sunlight filtered
   through Earth's stratospheric [14]ozone layer.

                   Tomorrow's picture: ice giant, red moon
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    Authors & editors: [26]Robert Nemiroff ([27]MTU) & [28]Jerry Bonnell
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   3. https://noirlab.edu/
   4. https://www.nsf.gov/
   5. https://www.aura-astronomy.org/
   6. https://www.petrhoralek.com/#about-1
   7. https://www.slu.cz/phys/en/
   8. https://noirlab.edu/public/images/iotw2245i/
   9. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap190126.html
  10. https://moon.nasa.gov/moon-in-motion/eclipses/
  11. https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/total-lunar-eclipse-nov8-2022/
  12. https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/149474/tonga-volcano-plume-reached-the-mesosphere
  13. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap211201.html
  14. https://www.nasa.gov/ozone
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