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Credit & Copyright: Giorgia Hofer
Explanation:
This is not a screen from
a video game.
Nestled below the tree-line,
the small mountain church does look like it might be
hiding from Moon though.
In the
well-composed
telephoto snapshot, taken on November 23,
the church walls are partly reflecting light from
terrestrial flood lights.
Of course, the Moon is reflecting light from the Sun.
At
any given time
the Sun illuminates fully half of the Moon's surface,
also known as the lunar dayside,
but on that night only a sliver of its sunlit surface was
visible.
About three days after New Moon, the Moon was in a
waxing crescent phase.
The single exposure was captured shortly after sunset
in skies near Danta di Cadore, northern Italy, planet Earth.
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- APOD: 2026 May 9 Á Messier Craters in Stereo
- APOD: 2026 April 15 Á The ISS Transits the Moon
- APOD: 2026 April 11 Á Artemis II: Flight Day 6
- The Bay of Rainbows
- Earthset from Orion