[FOTZeiss] Fw: Parthenon Moon

[Glenn A. Walsh]

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--- On Tue, 3/22/11, LARRY KLAES <ljk4 at MSN.COM> wrote:

> From: LARRY KLAES <ljk4 at MSN.COM>
> Subject: Parthenon Moon
> To: HASTRO-L at listserv.wvu.edu
> Date: Tuesday, March 22, 2011, 3:08 AM

Image of the Moon over the  Parthenon:
> http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap110320.html
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> Parthenon Moon 
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> Image Credit & Copyright: Anthony Ayiomamitis (TWAN) 
>  
> Explanation: Did you see the Full Moon last night? Near the
> horizon, the lunar orb may have seemed to loom large,
> swollen in appearance by the famous Moon illusion. But the
> Full Moon really was a large Full Moon last night, reaching
> its exact full phase within an hour of lunar perigee, the
> point in the Moon's elliptical orbit closest to planet
> Earth. A similar near perigee Full Moon last occured on
> December 12, 2008. The difference in the Moon's apparent
> size as it moves from perigee to apogee, its farthest point
> from Earth, is about 14 percent. Of course, a nearly Full
> Moon will rise again tonight, lighting the skies on the date
> of the Equinox or equal night. The Full Moon also looms
> large in this well-planned, telescopic lunar portrait.
> Captured earlier this year, the rising lunar orb is
> dramatically matched to the 2,500 year old Parthenon, in
> Athens, Greece. 
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