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Published: 2008-03-10 20:30:53 +0000 UTC; Views: 168; Favourites: 2; Downloads: 3
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Closer View of the Moon on March 10, 2008.A crescent shaped moon, where the shadowed part is lit up enough to see craters. I think this is cool. not sure why the shadowed part was sooo bright the last few days..
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dav71 [2008-03-10 23:39:51 +0000 UTC]
Very nice picture I love astronomy. The shadow surface is so bright because the light of the sun is reflected from the Earth to the Moon. In Italian this phenomenon is called "luce cinerea". I don't know the correct translation in English, I think "cinereous light" (but this is the word translation from Italian). You can see this particular light near the new moon, when the sky is very clean and the surface lit up of the moon is very tiny.
Sorry for the length of my comment and for my terrible English
ciao
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Tonsatz In reply to dav71 [2008-03-11 01:25:59 +0000 UTC]
ah yeah that would make sense. and your english is just fine!
thanks for letting me know too!
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Boonski [2008-03-10 21:42:04 +0000 UTC]
Yeah I saw this last night! My friends and I were walking from the movies to Wendy's and I saw the moon and pointed it out to them... I had never seen the moon this way before...
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Tonsatz In reply to Boonski [2008-03-10 21:46:11 +0000 UTC]
yeah im not sure that i have either (aside from the eclipse which looked similar).. but it has been like this for the past two nights, and its supposed to be clear, so im going to try to get a picture of it during twighlight tonight
thanks for faving it!
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