APOD: 2025 November 29 – Moon Games

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2025 November 29

Moon Games
Image Credit &
Copyright:

Giorgia Hofer

Explanation:

This is just not a display from
a video game.

Nestled under the treeline,
the small mountain church does appear like it could be
hiding from Moon although.

In the
well-composed
telephoto snapshot, taken on November 23,
the church partitions are partly reflecting gentle from
terrestrial flood lights.

Of course, the Moon is reflecting gentle from the Sun.

At any given time
the Sun illuminates totally half of the Moon’s floor,
also called the lunar dayside,
however on that night time solely a sliver of its sunlit floor was
seen.

About three days after New Moon, the Moon was in a
waxing crescent phase.

The single publicity was captured shortly after sundown
in skies close to Danta di Cadore, northern Italy, planet Earth.

Tomorrow’s image: most distant touchdown

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