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                           Astronomy Picture of the Day   
      
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                                  2023 August 30   
      
                               Full Moons of August   
                      Image Credit & Copyright: Gianni Tumino   
      
      Explanation: Near perigee, the closest point in its almost moonthly   
      orbit, a Full Moon rose as the Sun set on August 1. Its brighter than   
      average lunar disk was captured in this dramatic moonrise sequence over   
      dense cloud banks along the eastern horizon from Ragusa, Sicily.   
      Illuminating night skies around planet Earth it was the second   
      supermoon of 2023. Yet again near perigee, the third supermoon of 2023   
      will also shine on an August night. Rising as the Sun sets tonight this   
      second Full Moon in August will be known to some as a Blue Moon, even   
      though scattered sunlight gives the lunar disk a reddened hue. Defined   
      as the second full moon in a calendar month, blue moons occur only once   
      every 2 or 3 years. That's because lunar phases take 29.5 days, almost   
      a calendar month, to go through a complete cycle. Tonight an August   
      Blue Moon will find itself beside bright planet Saturn.   
      
                       Tomorrow's picture: the Crew-7 nebula   
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