瑞典山峰后方的凸月

2023年11月12日

Gibbous Moon beyond Swedish Mountain
Image Credit & Copyright: Göran Strand

Explanation: This is a gibbous Moon. More Earthlings are familiar with a full moon, when the entire face of Luna is lit by the Sun, and a crescent moon, when only a sliver of the Moon’s face is lit. When more than half of the Moon is illuminated, though, but still short of full illumination, the phase is called gibbous. Rarely seen in television and movies, gibbous moons are quite common in the actual night sky. The featured image was taken in Jämtland, Sweden near the end of 2018 October. That gibbous moon turned, in a few days, into a crescent moon, and then a new moon, then back to a crescent, and a few days past that, back to gibbous. Setting up to capture a picturesque gibbous moonscape, the photographer was quite surprised to find an airplane, surely well in the foreground, appearing to fly past it.

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Tomorrow’s picture: galaxy mountain

瑞典山峰后方的凸月
影像提供与版权: Göran Strand

说明: 这是一轮凸月。对很多地球人来说，更熟悉的是整个月面都受太阳照亮的满月，或是月面只有一抹日曜银白的蛾眉月。而盈逾半满月面，而又逊于满月的月相，则是凸月。鲜少出现在电视和电影的凸月，其实是夜空很常见的景观。这幅主题影像，是在2018年10月底左右摄于瑞典耶姆特兰。这轮凸月在数天后，变成下蛾眉月，接著成为新月，再过数天后，又变身为上蛾眉月。摄影者原先的意图是要拍摄美丽的凸月景观，却很意外的捕捉到一部显然近在前方，却看似从月轮上方掠过的飞机。

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明日的图片: galaxy mountain