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a Full Moon rose as the Sun set on june 9, known to some as a Strawberry Moon

close to the horizon and taking on the warm color of reflected sunlight filtered through a dense and dusty atmosphere, the fully illuminated lunar disk poses with the skyscrapers along the southern Manhattan skyline in this telephoto snapshot

the picture was taken from Eagle Rock Reservation, a park in West Orange, New Jersey, planet Earth

that's about 20 km from southern Manhattan and some 384 000 km from the Moon

foreground faces of the modern towers of steel and glass share the Moon's warm color by reflecting the last rays of the setting Sun

the tallest, with the shining triangular facet, is New York City's One World Trade Center





































in apod.nasa.gov/apod