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From : Alan Ianson
Date : Sat Jan 27 2024 00:26:12

                        Astronomy Picture of the Day

    Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our
      fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation
                    written by a professional astronomer.

                               2024 January 27

                            Full Observatory Moon
       Image Credit & Copyright: Yuri Beletsky (Carnegie Las Campanas
                             Observatory, TWAN)

   Explanation: A popular name for January's full moon in the northern
   hemisphere is the Full Wolf Moon. As the new year's first full moon, it
   rises over Las Campanas Observatory in this dramatic
   Earth-and-moonscape. Peering from the foreground like astronomical eyes
   are the observatory's twin 6.5 meter diameter Magellan telescopes. The
   snapshot was captured with telephoto lens across rugged terrain in the
   Chilean Atacama Desert, taken at a distance of about 9 miles from the
   observatory and about 240,000 miles from the lunar surface. Of course
   the first full moon of the lunar new year, known to some as the Full
   Snow Moon, will rise on February 24.

                     Tomorrow's picture: Pluto in color
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