A Quadruple Alignment over Italy

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2503/QuadMoon_Minato_960.jpg

Why does this Moon look so unusual? A key reason is its vivid red color. The color is caused by the deflection of blue light by Earth’s atmosphere – the same reason that the daytime sky appears blue. The Moon also appears unusually distorted. Its strange structuring is an optical effect arising from layers in the Earth’s atmosphere that refract light differently due to sudden differences in temperature or pressure. A third reason the Moon looks so unusual is that there is, by chance, an airplane flying in front. The featured picturesque gibbous Moon was captured about two weeks ago above Turin, Italy. Our familiar hovering sky orb was part of an unusual quadruple alignment that included two historic ground structures: the Sacra di San Michele on the near hill and Basilica of Superga just beyond. Your Sky Surprise: What picture did APOD feature on your friend’s birthday? (post 1995)

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  • @A_AEnglish
    2•5 days ago

    Thanks. Some of your posts are very interesting but here the image doesn’t show directly in the post since its link was not provided to the URL section when posting.

    Also it would be much better if you respected Community links formatting :
    !community_name
    !community_name@instance_name

    …even your user links are wrong,
    yet your links to users are good, see :
    https://lemmy.world/comment/15424642

    Finally, there seems to be issues with your instance’s synchronization since, from here (lemmy.world), your account has only 2 posts and no comments !