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A photo showing the perfect harmony of a crescent moon, a cathedral, and a mountain peak was selected as the astronomical photo of the day by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
According to Italian media such as TG La7 on the 25th (local time), NASA and the Michigan Institute of Technology selected the triple alignment photo taken by Italian photographer Valerio Minato in Piamonte on the 15th as the Astronomy Photo of the Day (APOD) for Christmas.
This photo, posted under the title ‘Cathedral, Mountain, Moon’, was taken in Piamonte, Italy at around 6:52 pm on the 15th.
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The ‘Basilica’, the dome of the Superga Cathedral near Turin, the ‘Mount Monviso’, the highest mountain in the Cotian Alps on the border of France and Italy, and the ‘crescent moon’, whose entire outline is revealed by double reflection, are harmoniously aligned like a composite. It’s a look.
“I thought I should take this photo in 2017,” Minato said, adding that it took a full six years to complete such a wonderful astronomical photo.
After traveling to various regions to get ideas and analyzing the moon’s phase, horizon position, and weather, he was able to capture the cathedral, the mountains, and the moon in just one shot.
According to him, there is only once a year the moment when the moon becomes exactly circular and appears there. The crescent moon is half illuminated and becomes circular with reflected light. However, he added that it was completed in 6 years because the weather did not cooperate for the previous 5 years.
Meanwhile, the phenomenon where a faint light appears in a circular shape on a dark moon is called ‘da Vinci Glow’ (earthshine). This refers to a phenomenon in which the dark part of the moon appears faintly as light from the Earth is reflected. It was given the name Da Vinci Glow because the first records were written by Leonardo da Vinci in the early 1500s.
Electronic Newspaper Internet Reporter Seo Hee-won shw@etnews.com
