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Endless expanse 🤩

The full #Moon shines bright in the sky. Below it, the giant dome of our Extremely Large Telescope glows with the golden #sunset light of the Atacama Desert in #Chile.

The ELT dome might look small in the image, but the full 30-min walk via the set of stairs from the entrance of the dome to its top indicates its gigantic size: 80 m high and 93 m wide.

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📷 L. Sbordone/ESO

#astrodon #astronomy #astrophysics #space #science

This photograph captures the mesmerising colours of an evening sky. The sky's gradient fades from blue at the top to white, then orange and pink at the bottom. A mountain range is visible at the bottom of the image, with all but one of the mountains already in darkness. The last illuminated one is on the right, with a metallic structure on top. In the middle of the mountain range, a triangular shadow can be seen. A silver full moon high in the sky on the left underlines the timelessness of the image.

Endless expanse

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Phases of the Moon from *Smith's Illustrated Astronomy* (1849) by Asa Smith, from Smith's Illustrated Astronomy.

Source: Smithsonian Libraries and Archives

Available to buy as a print.

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#moon #diagrams #orbit #phases #lunar #art #publicdomain

‘Phases of the Moon from *Smith's Illustrated Astronomy*’ by Asa Smith from Smith's Illustrated Astronomy (1849)

Illustration from *Smith's Illustrated Astronomy* (1849) by Asa Smith.
Public Domain Image Archive
#art #Moon #publicdomain #orbit #diagrams #phases #lunar

Last night’s full moon, the last supermoon of the year, was what the Mohawk Nation calls the Cold Moon — also known by other names such as the Snow Moon (Cherokee), the Frost Exploding Trees Moon (Cree), the Moon When the Deer Shed Their Antlers (Lakota), the Long Night Moon (Mohican), and the Moon When the Wolves Run Together (Cheyenne). Beautiful by any name.

#photography #astrophotography #moon #fullmoon #supermoon #coldmoon

Photo of the full moon with visible craters against a black sky. Just gorgeous. Shot with an iPhone 15 attached to a Celestron 130mm reflector telescope.
#photography #Moon #astrophotography #fullmoon #supermoon #coldmoon

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