Moonlight illuminates a snowy scene in this night land and skyscape made on January 17 from Lower Miller Creek, Alaska, USA. Overexposed near the mountainous western horizon is the first quarter Moon itself, surrounded by an icy halo and flanked left and right by moondogs. Sometimes called mock moons, a more scientific name for the luminous apparations is paraselenae (plural). Analogous to a sundog or parhelion, a paraselene is produced by moonlight refracted through thin, hexagonal, plate-shaped ice crystals in high cirrus clouds. As determined by the crystal geometry, paraselenae are seen at an angle of 22 degrees or more from the Moon. Compared to the bright lunar disk, paraselenae are faint and easier to spot when the Moon is low. (APOD - Image Credit: Sebastian Saarloos)
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Full Moon Quote:
"Intense Leo Full Moon today enhanced by Mars Pluto alignment giving strong desires & ego conflicts but the Full Moon supported by protective, lucky Jupiter & innovative, liberating Uranus. This Full Moon can trigger great movement and progress over the next weeks especially as Jupiter turns direct Jan 30th." ~Terence Guardino
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