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10 ways to enjoy tonight’s full moon
The moon’s done it again. Ambled its way along the ecliptic to another full moon phase. Appropriately enough, this month’s full moon is called the Hunter’s Moon. It rises in the northeast in Aries the...
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Moon’s magic may play tricks on you tonight
The Full Wolf Moon rises in the company of many of winter's brightest stars tonight. Maps created with Stellarium Aahwhoooooooooooooooooooooooo … aahwhooooooooooooooooooooooo! Tonight is the Full Wolf...
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Pretty in pink and green – a look at more atmospheric hijinks
The Full Wolf Moon rises over the lighthouse at the end of the Duluth Ship Canal last night. Photo: Bob King Orion’s feet were tangled up in the limbs of a maple tree last night as I stopped on the ski...
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Starts as starlight, becomes something wonderful
Tiny reflections of the sun created by the contact points of legs and water between two mating water striders. Photo: Bob King Sunlight and starlight are transformed in wonderful ways by our...
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Hey rainbow, where’s my pot of gold?
Looking like some spectacular comet, a rainbow segment arcs over Duluth’s Park Point and Lake Superior last week near sunset. A different reflected rainbow appears on the water. See explanation below....
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Thank God it’s finally autumn this weekend
As the days grow shorter, green chlorophyll breaks down in these sugar maple leaves unmasking yellow and orange pigments that have been there all along. Reds are produced in late summer and early fall...
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Is NASA hiding something? No, but the Earth is
Pictures of the sun snapped every 15 minutes by the orbiting Solar Dynamics Observatory. Data appears to be missing from the middle five frames. Credit: NASA So what’s up with those blank squares?...
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Polar vortex returns, paints sky in prismatic sparkles
A beautiful halo with accompanying sun dogs (bright spots left and right of the sun) and an upper tangent arc at top photographed earlier this morning Jan. 27. A second much larger and fainter halo...
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Emerge from your hole and wriggle at the Full Worm Moon
Tonight the moon is just shy of full and rises in the constellation Leo about half an hour before sunset in the east. This view shows it around 8 p.m. local time. Click to find when the moon rises for...
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Comet Lovejoy’s tail gets pinched / Let there be (refracted) light!
Lovejoy gets kinky. In this photo taken January 8th, the comet’s tail is caught in the act of separated from the head or coma. Magnetic fields embedded in the stream of particles from the Sun...
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Watch a Pink and Blue Sunset on Mars
This was the first sunset observed in color by Curiosity. The color has been calibrated and white-balanced to remove camera artifacts. Mastcam sees color much the way the human eye does, although it’s...
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How The Air We Breathe Warps And Distorts The Moon
These photos of the Full Strawberry Moon were taken last night over a period of about 5 minutes. If you look carefully, you can see lots of distortions around the the moon’s circumference. There’s a...
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Supermoon Connected Us All If For A Moment
The full moon rises over Lake Superior near the lighthouse at the end of the Duluth Ship Canal Sunday evening. Credit: Bob King Some of us could tell it looked bigger. Some couldn’t. No matter. We...
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When The Moon Gets All Bent Out Of Shape
The Great Lakes Trader / Joyce L. Van Enkevort cuts through the gleaming reflection of the moon on Lake Superior as it arrives in Duluth Thursday evening. Credit: Bob King Watching a moonrise can be...
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Full Thunder Moon And A Spotted Sun
A charcoal sketch of the full moon as viewed in binoculars or a small telescope by Frank McCabe Full moon tonight! The July moon had a couple traditional names: Full Buck Moon, after buck deers’...
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See The Last Blue Moon ‘Til 2020
Duluth artist Shawna Gilmore’s painting Blue Moon captures a blue mood. Shawna Gilmore The moon looks so sad in Shawna’s painting and so it should. Tomorrow’s Blue Moon will be the last until Halloween...
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Can You See A Rainbow After Sunset? Absolutely
Tuesday evening’s rainbow was very red because it happened just before sunset. Air scatters away the blues and greens from the low sun, so only warmer colors enter the raindrops and are reflected back....
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Full Hunter’s Moon Horizon Hijinks
A previous October full moon rises orange and distorted over Lake Superior in Duluth, Minn. Bob King With the approach of the firearms deer hunting season it won’t be long before blaze orange becomes...
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Itchy Eyes From Allergies? Watch For Pollen Coronas!
Cell phone photo of an intensely colorful pollen corona around the sun on April 19. I used a tree to block the sun otherwise glare would have overwhelmed the sight. Bob King For many of us, allergies...
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Prisms In The Grass Ply Secrets From The Stars
Raindrops and prisms both are masters of light-bending. In a rainbow a beam of sunlight is bent as it enters the drop, reflects off the back of the drop and is bent a second time on exit, where it fans...
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