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                                   2022 July 27   
      
                        Crepuscular Moon Rays over Denmark   
              Image Credit & Copyright: Ruslan Merzlyakov (astrorms)   
      
      Explanation: This moon made quite an entrance. Typically, a moonrise is   
      quiet and serene. Taking a few minutes to fully peek above the horizon,   
      Earth's largest orbital companion can remain relatively obscure until   
      it rises high in the nighttime sky. About a week ago, however, and   
      despite being only half lit by the Sun, this rising moon put on a show   
      -- at least from this location. The reason was that, as seen from   
      Limfjord in Nyk+.bing Mors, Denmark, the moon rose below scattered   
      clouds near the horizon. The result, captured here in a single   
      exposure, was that moonlight poured through gaps in the clouds to   
      created what are called crepuscular rays. These rays can fan out   
      dramatically across the sky when starting near the horizon, and can   
      even appear to converge on the other side of the sky. Well behind our   
      Moon, stars from our Milky Way galaxy dot the background, and our   
      galaxy's largest orbital companion -- the Andromeda galaxy -- can be   
      found on the upper left.   
      
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