APOD: Sunset, Shadowrise (2010 Jul 29)

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Sunset, Shadowrise

Explanation: From central Australia, this serene 360 degree panorama follows a clear horizon as twilight began on May 28. At left, a bright western sky is still illuminated by the setting Sun. But sweeping right, toward a view centered on the countryside's dominating sandstone formation called Uluru or Ayers Rock, the sky takes on progressively darker hues and subtle colors. Behind Uluru is the shadow of planet Earth itself, a dark blue arch rising in the east. Cast through the dense atmosphere and still close to the horizon, Earth's long shadow is bounded above by a pinkish glow or antitwilight arch. Known as the Belt of Venus, the lovely color of the antitwilight arch is due to backscattering of reddened light from the setting Sun. On that night, a nearly full Moon also rose above Earth's shadow in the eastern sky.

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[owlice]

What a beautiful image!

[neufer]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzlG28B-R8Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yF5FKNnxoQ

[moonstruck]

Yeah, a beautiful image. That's about it. But it IS a beautiful image.

[m. stroup]

This is a perfect illustration of my contention that night doesn't fall, it rises.

[Ann]

This is a perfect illustration of my contention that night doesn't fall, it rises.

And in the morning it sinks!

I once saw a nearly full Moon sit smack in the middle of the Earth's shadow one early morning. The blue shadow looked like thick distant fog or an opaque cloud bank. It seemed impossible that the Moon could be seen right through this thick-looking blueness, yet there it was, clear as day.

Ann

[pandphomemades]

Gorgeous (After seeing the Columbia river gorge, I do not use the word lightly.)

[Henning Makholm]

I once saw a nearly full Moon sit smack in the middle of the Earth's shadow one early morning.

That'd be a lunar eclipse, wouldn't it?

[orin stepanek]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzlG28B-R8Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yF5FKNnxoQ

Thanks for the nostalgia Art!
I liked the center of the photo best; with the tree and Ayers Rock. Don't get me wrong I liked the whole panorama. I presume that lone dot of light was Venus?

[neufer]

I presume that lone dot of light was Venus?

"On that night, a nearly full Moon also rose above Earth's shadow in the eastern sky. "

[orin stepanek]

"On that night, a nearly full Moon also rose above Earth's shadow in the eastern sky. "

True; but it isn't on the panorama. It does give a link to another panorama that shows Luna.

[neufer]

Gorgeous (After seeing the Columbia river gorge, I do not use the word lightly.)

Gorge, n. [F. gorge, LL. gorgia, throat, narrow pass, and gorga abyss, whirlpool, prob. fr. L. gurgea whirlpool, gulf, abyss.]

Gorgeous, a. [OF. gorgias beautiful, glorious, vain, luxurious; cf. OF. gorgias ruff, neck handkerchief, and F. gorge throat,
and se pengorger to assume airs. Cf. Gorge, n.] Imposing through splendid or various colors; showy; fine; magnificent.
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. Finnegans Wake: (first page)

nor had topsawyer's rocks by the stream Oconee exaggerated themselse
to Laurens County's gorgios while they went doublin their mumper all the time
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. King Henry IV, Part i Act 4, Scene 1

VERNON: All plumed like estridges that with the wind
. Baited like eagles having lately bathed;
. Glittering in golden coats, like images;
. As full of spirit as the month of May,
. And Gorgeous as the sun at midsummer;
. Wanton as youthful goats, wild as young bulls.
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. Love's Labour's Lost Act 4, Scene 3

BIRON: like a rude and savage man of Inde,
. At the first opening of the Gorgeous east,
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. The Tempest Act 4, Scene 1

Shakespeare's statue at Westminster Abbey

PROSPERO: You do look, my son, in a moved sort,
. As if you were dismay'd: be cheerful, sir.
. Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
. As I foretold you, were all spirits and
. Are melted into air, into thin air:
. And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,
. The cloud-capp'd towers, the Gorgeous palaces,
. The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
. Ye all which it inherit, shall dissolve
. And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
. Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
. As dreams are made on, and our little life
. Is rounded with a sleep.
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"The winds in the upper region, which move the clouds above,
which we call the rack, . . . pass without noise." - Francis Bacon.
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[neufer]

"On that night, a nearly full Moon also rose above Earth's shadow in the eastern sky. "

True; but it isn't on the panorama.

Three full pixels wide in a 720 'moon wide' panorama.

[orin stepanek]

"On that night, a nearly full Moon also rose above Earth's shadow in the eastern sky. "

True; but it isn't on the panorama.

Three full pixels wide in a 720 'moon wide' panorama.

I didn't expect it to show up that small. It does say above the Earth's shadow.

[Chris Peterson]

I once saw a nearly full Moon sit smack in the middle of the Earth's shadow one early morning. The blue shadow looked like thick distant fog or an opaque cloud bank. It seemed impossible that the Moon could be seen right through this thick-looking blueness, yet there it was, clear as day.

I see this nearly every month, and how close the Moon is to the terminator is a clue to how near we were to an eclipse.

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[León]

On which projects the shadow of the earth? I think about the atmosphere itself and which forms the belt of venus? I think about the atmosphere itself with the color of sunlight at the surface through the stains of that color. I hope to rectify if different.

[RJN]

I once saw a nearly full Moon sit smack in the middle of the Earth's shadow one early morning.
Ann

Yes. Really cool! Here are some pics:

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080301.html
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap031203.html

(Doesn't anybody read APOD around here?)

[orin stepanek]

I like the Dec.3 2003 APOD; really neat. http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap031203.html
I like to stroll through the archives sometimes; Some really cool pictures there. Thanks RJN for the link.

[beyond]

So that's what it's like to have eyes in the back of your head to see through at the same time you are looking forward. Amazing!!