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                           Astronomy Picture of the Day   
      
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                                   2024 July 19   
      
                    Anticrepuscular Rays at the Planet Festival   
                      Image Credit & Copyright: Pavel Gabzdyl   
      
      Explanation: For some, these subtle bands of light and shadow stretched   
      across the sky as the Sun set on July 11. Known as anticrepuscular   
      rays, the bands are formed as a large cloud bank near the western   
      horizon cast long shadows through the atmosphere at sunset. Due to the   
      camera's perspective, the bands of light and shadow seem to converge   
      toward the eastern (opposite) horizon at a point seen just above a 14th   
      century hilltop castle near Brno, Czech Republic. In the foreground,   
      denizens of planet Earth are enjoying the region's annual Planet   
      Festival in the park below the Brno Observatory and Planetarium. And   
      while crepuscular and anticrepuscular rays are a relatively common   
      atmospheric phenomenon, this festival's 10 meter diameter inflatable   
      spheres representing bodies of the Solar System are less often seen on   
      planet Earth.   
      
                   Tomorrow's picture: panorama on another world   
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