Full Observatory Moon
Explanation:
A popular
name
for January's full moon in the northern hemisphere is
the Full Wolf Moon.
As the new year's first full moon, it rises over Las Campanas Observatory
in this dramatic
Earth-and-moonscape.
Peering from the foreground like astronomical eyes are
the observatory's twin 6.5 meter diameter Magellan telescopes.
The snapshot was captured with telephoto lens
across rugged terrain in the Chilean Atacama Desert,
taken at a distance of about 9 miles from the observatory
and about
240,000 miles from
the lunar surface.
Of course the first full moon of the
lunar new year,
known to some as
the Full Snow Moon, will rise on February 24.
Authors & editors:
Robert Nemiroff
(MTU) &
Jerry Bonnell
(USRA)
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