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                                 2022 December 15   
      
                               Full Moon, Full Mars   
                     Image Credit & Copyright: Tomas Slovinsky   
      
      Explanation: On December 8 a full Moon and a full Mars were close, both   
      bright and opposite the Sun in planet Earth's sky. In fact Mars was   
      occulted, passing behind the Moon when viewed from some locations   
      across Europe and North America. Seen from the city of Kosice in   
      eastern Slovakia, the lunar occultation of Mars happened just before   
      sunrise. The tantalizing spectacle was recorded in this telescopic   
      timelapse sequence of exposures. It took about an hour for the Red   
      Planet to disappear behind the lunar disk and then reappear as a   
      warm-hued full Moon, the last full Moon of 2022, sank toward the   
      western horizon. The next lunar occultation of bright planet Mars will   
      be in the new year on January 3, when the Moon is in a waxing gibbous   
      phase. Lunar occultations are only ever visible from a fraction of the   
      Earth's surface, though. The January 3 occultation of Mars will be   
      visible from parts of the South Atlantic, southern Africa, and the   
      Indian Ocean.   
      
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