Monday, April 18, 2016

Embrace between the Moon and Mercury over Lisbon enchants NASA – TVI24

Every day NASA highlights an allusive image space – the Astronomy Picture of the Day – on its website. And on Friday, it was the photograph of a Portuguese, Miguel Claro, which proved to be surprised to have for the second time, this first page honors.

“Incredibly, the NASA returned the highlight yesterday , April 15, as Astronomy picture of the day in the APOD site, a photo that caught last April 8, above Lisbon’s Capital, “said the Portuguese photographer Miguel Claro

Nothing like the own explanation of what we can contemplate:. “you can see the Crescent Moon at Perigee (closest point to Earth) allowing make visible a strong Earthshine, aligned to 6 away from the planet Mercury, one of the rare appearances making throughout the year, is too close to the sun. “

the image was captured from Barreiro with a telephoto lens and, according to the author, about 8.5 quilóemtros away from Almada, straight.

“It allowed register an idyllic setting at nautical twilight, the magic of two very visible stars above Christ the King and 25th of April Bridge and Lisbon capital “.

it is not the first time that the work of Miguel Claro is highlighted in NASA . The other image that went around the world was the “Rainbow Airglow” of the Azores, the Pico. It is this:

(Miguel Claro)

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