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                               2023 August 30
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                            Full Moons of August
                Image Credit & [3]Copyright: [4]Gianni Tumino

   Explanation: [5]Near perigee, the closest point in its almost moonthly
   orbit, a Full Moon rose as the Sun set on August 1. Its brighter than
   average lunar disk was captured in this dramatic moonrise sequence over
   dense cloud banks along the eastern horizon from Ragusa, Sicily.
   Illuminating night skies around planet Earth it was the second
   [6]supermoon of 2023. Yet again near perigee, the third supermoon of
   2023 will also [7]shine on an August night. Rising as the Sun sets
   tonight this second Full Moon in August will be known to some as a Blue
   Moon, even though scattered sunlight gives the lunar disk a reddened
   hue. Defined as the second full moon in a calendar month, [8]blue moons
   occur only once every 2 or 3 years. That's because lunar phases take
   29.5 days, almost a calendar month, to go through a complete cycle.
   [9]Tonight an August Blue Moon will find itself beside bright planet
   Saturn.

                    Tomorrow's picture: the Crew-7 nebula
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