Rising red full moon
by Konstantinos Kourtidis, Demokritus University of Thrace, Xanthi, Greece
At around 21:27 local time, approx. 10 deg above the horizon. Moon appears red nearthe horizon due to the prefferential atmospheric scattering at shorter wavelengths.
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- Europe (3704)
- Southern Europe (1617)
- Greece (312)
- Exact location (24.9915 E, 40.9481 N)
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3072 × 2304 px;
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Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ8
Taken on 27
July
2010
Submitted on 26 August 2010
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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)
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Konstantinos Kourtidis (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
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