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                                 2022 May 18
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                         A Jewel on the Flower Moon
               Image Credit & [3]Copyright: [4]Tomas Slovinsky

   Explanation: Cloudy skies plagued some sky watchers on Sunday as May's
   [5]Full Flower Moon slipped through Earth's shadow in a [6]total lunar
   eclipse. In skies above Chile's Atacama desert this telephoto snapshot
   still captured an awesome spectacle though. Seen through thin high
   cirrus clouds just before totality began, a last sliver of sunlit
   crescent glistens like a hazy jewel atop the mostly shadowed lunar
   disk. This full moon was near perigee, the closest point in [7]its
   elliptical orbit. It passed near the center of Earth's [8]dark umbral
   shadow during the 90 minute long total eclipse phase. Faintly suffused
   with sunlight scattered by the atmosphere, the umbral shadow itself
   gave the eclipsed moon a reddened appearance and the very dramatic
   popular moniker of a [9]Blood Moon.

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