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                                 2021 June 4

                             Blood Monster Moon
                   Image Credit & Copyright: Chirag Upreti

   Explanation: On May 26, the Full Flower Moon was caught in this single
   exposure as it emerged from Earth's shadow and morning twilight began
   to wash over the western sky. Posing close to the horizon near the end
   of totality, an eclipsed lunar disk is framed against bare oak trees at
   Pinnacles National Park in central California. The Earth's shadow isn't
   completely dark though. Faintly suffused with sunlight scattered by the
   atmosphere, the inner shadow gives the totally eclipsed moon a reddened
   appearance and the very dramatic popular moniker of a Blood Moon.
   Still, the monstrous visage of a gnarled tree in silhouette made this
   view of a total lunar eclipse even scarier.

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