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Credit & Copyright: Branko Nadj
Explanation:
The Buck Moon
is a traditional name for the full moon of July.
In this colorful Adriatic sea and skyscape captured on July 28 from
Krk Island along the coast of Croatia,
a full Buck Moon is just rising over distant mountains.
Since a full moon rises as the Sun sets,
Earth's shadow
also rises in the twilight scene, a diffuse gray band extending above the
mountainous southeastern horizon.
Above Earth's shadow band is the pinkish
antitwilight arch.
That subtly tinted band of backscattered sunlight is more widely known as the
Belt of Venus.
But as it shares the eastern horizon with the atmospheric
shadow of Earth and Belt of Venus,
this full Buck Moon seems to set the stage for the New Moon to come.
The New Moon of August 12 will cast its shadow on planet Earth in a much anticipated
total solar eclipse.
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