Thursday, 5 March 2015

The Moon at the closest point to the Earth


This is the sunset at the North Pole with the moon at its closest point last week. You can also see the sun below the moon, an amazing photo and not one easily duplicated.
BUT Read this!

4 comments:

  1. A nice image, yeah, but, well, bad news: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/11/17/an-unreal-picture-of-sunset-at-the-north-pole/

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  2. Thanks for info. Shame!
    I have added your link to the end of the original post.

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  3. Impossible for it to be real.
    Richard Gosnell

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  4. The perspective is way out. The foreground wate.......the apparent lunar diameter vis-a-vis the suns.......tell me when to stop

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