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| The full moon on June 10, 2006, reflects off the Colorado river in Fruita, Colorado. Note that the moon is just above Earth's shadow (the 'Belt of Venus'). Also note a few subtle anti-crepuscular rays converging at the left center of the image (while viewing the full-size image, sit back from your screen to better enjoy the visual effect of these rays). |
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| Crepuscular rays at coastal sunset. San Diego, California. |
| Full moon rising inside the 'Belt of Venus', just above Earth's shadow, as seen from above Anza-Borrego Desert State Park in southern California. Subtle anti-crepuscular rays can be seen converging from the upper right corner of the image to a point just left of the full moon (while viewing the full-size image, sit back from your screen to better enjoy the visual effect of these rays). |
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| Anticrepuscular rays during twilight as seen from Sutherland Reservoir. Ramona, California (while viewing the full-size image, sit back from your screen to better enjoy the visual effect of these rays). |
| Colorful wind-swept rocket exhaust trail left by a Minuteman-II launched from Vandenberg AFB on 3/15/2002. |
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| 22° solar halos caused by sunlight refracting through ice crystals in high-altitude cirrus clouds. Downtown San Diego, California. |
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22° lunar halo caused by reflected sunlight (moonlight) refracting through ice crystals in high-altitude cirrus clouds.
San Diego, California. Aside from the over-exposed waxing gibbous moon there are other bright objects in the image. Jupiter lies just below and to the right of the moon, Saturn and Aldebaran are above and to the left (just inside the halo ring), Capella is below and to the left of the moon (just outside the halo ring), Betelguese is above and to the right of the moon (just inside the halo ring), and Rigel can be seen in the upper right of the frame. |
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A colorful late-afternoon Sun dog. Lubec, Maine. |
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