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                           Astronomy Picture of the Day   
      
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                                    2022 May 18   
      
                            A Jewel on the Flower Moon   
                     Image Credit & Copyright: Tomas Slovinsky   
      
      Explanation: Cloudy skies plagued some sky watchers on Sunday as May's   
      Full Flower Moon slipped through Earth's shadow in a total lunar   
      eclipse. In skies above Chile's Atacama desert this telephoto snapshot   
      still captured an awesome spectacle though. Seen through thin high   
      cirrus clouds just before totality began, a last sliver of sunlit   
      crescent glistens like a hazy jewel atop the mostly shadowed lunar   
      disk. This full moon was near perigee, the closest point in its   
      elliptical orbit. It passed near the center of Earth's dark umbral   
      shadow during the 90 minute long total eclipse phase. Faintly suffused   
      with sunlight scattered by the atmosphere, the umbral shadow itself   
      gave the eclipsed moon a reddened appearance and the very dramatic   
      popular moniker of a Blood Moon.   
      
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