            APOD: 2018 June 4 - Moon Setting Behind Teide Volcano

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                                  2018 June 4
                      Moon Setting Behind Teide Volcano
    Video Credit & Copyright [2] : Daniel Lopez (El Cielo de Canarias [3] );
                  Music:  Piano della Moon (Dan Silva [4] )

Explanation: These people are not in danger. What is coming down from the left
is just the Moon, far in the distance. Luna [5]  appears so large here because
she is being photographed through a telescopic lens [6] . What is moving is
mostly the Earth [7] , whose spin causes the Moon [8]  to slowly disappear
behind Mount Teide [9] , a volcano in the Canary Islands [10] off the
northwest coast of Africa [11] . The people pictured are 16 kilometers away
[12]  and many are facing the camera because they are watching the Sun [13]
rise behind the photographer. It is not a coincidence [14]  that a full moon
[15]  rises just when the Sun sets [16]  because the Sun is always on the
opposite side [17]  of the sky from a full moon. The featured video [18] was
made last week during the full Milk Moon [19] . The video is not time-lapse
[20]  -- this was really how fast the Moon was setting.

                  Tomorrow's picture: jovian cloud art [21]

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