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Thick_asa_Planck
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Reged: 09/04/04
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I just found this great photo on my favourite website, after CN of course  :
http://www.spaceweather.com/swpod2004/23dec04/DiNasso.jpg
Explanation: Gazing across the waters of the Tyrrhenian Sea on Dec. 21st, Italian photographer Riccardo Di Nasso saw something weird happen to the moon. As it sank beneath the distant waves, its turned red and drooped like hot taffy.
Atmospheric optics expert Les Cowley explains: "When the moon or sun are rising and setting look out for weird effects. Here the three-quarter moon was miraged into what Jules Verne likened to an Etruscan vase. The upper shape is the real moon--the lower one is an inverted image produced by downward moon rays bent back upwards at the junction between a lower layer of air warmed by the sea and cold air above."
Just wanted to share this article as it's such an odd picture!
Thanks for reading.
Alex
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