花月上的宝石
(原标题: A Jewel on the Flower Moon)
2022-05-18
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周日，五月的满月在月全食中穿过地球的阴影，阴天困扰着一些天空观测者。在智利阿塔卡马沙漠上空，这张远摄照片仍然捕捉到了令人敬畏的景象。在全食开始前，透过薄薄的高卷云，最后一缕月牙在阳光的照耀下闪闪发光，就像一颗朦胧的宝石。这次满月接近近地点，也就是它椭圆轨道上最近的点。在长达90分钟的日全食期间，它经过地球黑暗本影的中心附近。被大气散射的阳光模糊地弥漫着，本影本身给月食带来了红色的外观和非常戏剧性的流行绰号“血月”。
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Cloudy skies plagued some sky watchers on Sunday as May's Full Flower Moon slipped through Earth's shadow in a 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 its elliptical orbit. It passed near the center of Earth's 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 Blood Moon.
© Tomas Slovinsky