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                                 2022 May 20

                         A View from Earth's Shadow
                   Image Credit & Copyright: Maxime Oudoux

   Explanation: This serene sand and skyscape finds the Dune of Pilat on
   the coast of France still in Earth's shadow during the early morning
   hours of May 16. Extending into space, the planet's dark umbral shadow
   covered the Moon on that date. From that location the total phase of a
   lunar eclipse had begun before moonset. Still in sunlight though, the
   International Space Station crossed from the western horizon and
   Earth's largest artificial moon traced the bright flat arc through the
   sky over 400 km above. Simply constructed, the well-planned panoramic
   scene was captured over a 5 minutes in a series of consecutive images.

                         Tomorrow's picture: Abell 7
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