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The moon is "bracketed" Mars and Saturn

Added	Fri, 21/09/2018
Источники	gismeteo.ru
Дата публикации	Thu, 20/09/2018
Версии	Halo The heavenly bodies

Two months after its approximation to the Earth Mars remains one of the brightest objects in the night sky, eclipsing Sirius by 10 %. Last night the waxing Moon was directly in front of Mars, almost merged together with the red planet.

On Tuesday, September 18, Marek Nicodemus photographed the moon approaching Mars, over the Polish city Subin.

"The show was exceptionally beautiful, because in addition to moon were also visible planets Mars and Saturn, — says the photographer. All three were enclosed in brackets, formed by paraselenae, or about the moons bright patches on the moon halo on the right and left".

Paraselene like a comet with rainbow core. In fact, this phenomenon of the earth's atmosphere, which is closely associated with sunlight. Ice crystals floating in Cirrus clouds at an altitude of 5-10 km, intercepts the rays and refract them in different forms.

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