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                           Astronomy Picture of the Day   
      
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                                 2024 September 20   
      
                                A Hazy Harvest Moon   
      Image Credit & Copyright: Petr Hor+ílek / Institute of Physics in Opava   
      
      Explanation: For northern hemisphere dwellers, September's Full Moon   
      was the Harvest Moon. On September 17/18 the sunlit lunar nearside   
      passed into shadow, just grazing Earth's umbra, the planet's dark,   
      central shadow cone, in a partial lunar eclipse. Over the two and half   
      hours before dawn a camera fixed to a tripod was used to record this   
      series of exposures as the eclipsed Harvest Moon set behind Spi+í Castle   
      in the hazy morning sky over eastern Slovakia. Famed in festival,   
      story, and song, Harvest Moon is just the traditional name of the full   
      moon nearest the autumnal equinox. According to lore the name is a   
      fitting one. Despite the diminishing daylight hours as the growing   
      season drew to a close, farmers could harvest crops by the light of a   
      full moon shining on from dusk to dawn. This September's Harvest Moon   
      was also known to some as a supermoon, a term becoming a traditional   
      name for a full moon near perigee.   
      
                         Tomorrow's picture: light-weekend   
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