                        Astronomy Picture of the Day

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                              2022 November 11

                            Blood Moon, Ice Giant
                     Image Credit & Copyright: Ryan Han

   Explanation: On November 8 the Full Moon turned blood red as it slid
   through Earth's shadow in a beautiful total lunar eclipse. During
   totality it also passed in front of, or occulted, outer planet Uranus
   for eclipse viewers located in parts of northern America and Asia. For
   a close-up and wider view these two images were taken just before the
   occultation began, captured with different telescopes and cameras from
   the same roof top in Shanghai, China. Normally very faint compared to a
   Full Moon, the tiny, pale, greenish disk of the distant ice giant is
   just to the left of the Moon's edge and about to disappear behind the
   darkened, red lunar limb. Though only visible from certain locations
   across planet Earth, lunar occultations of planets are fairly common.
   But for this rare "lunar eclipse occultation" to take place, at the
   time of the total eclipse the outer planet had to be both at opposition
   and very near the ecliptic plane to fall in line with Sun, Earth, and
   Moon.

         Lunar Eclipse of November 2022: Notable Submissions to APOD
   Love Eclipses? (US): Apply to become a NASA Partner Eclipse Ambassador
                   Tomorrow's picture: eclipse in the city
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