A Moon Glory and a Brocken Spectre Shinning above Dark Sky® Vale do Tua
Atmospheric & Optical phenomena | By Year: 2020 | Dark Sky Vale do Tua | Glory | Moonlight Scenes
Featured as OPOD – Optics Picture of the Day, the image reveals a starry landscape scene from the viewpoint of Ujo and overlooking to the extensive Tua valley and the current reservoir on a moonlit foggy night, while the Waning Moon was laying down behind the mountains, creating a ringed Moon Glory and a Brocken Spectre shadow, as seen on lower center left of this wide panoramic scene. Resembling an iconic saint’s halo, a Glory happens in rare occasions, when the moonlight is interacting with the tiny water droplets that compose mist or clouds. Consisting in one or more concentric rings successively dimming, in which each is red on the outside and bluish towards the centre, it is centered on the antilunar point, coinciding with the shadow of the observer’s head. Since this point is by definition diametrically opposed to the moon’s position in the night sky, it always lies below the observer’s horizon when the moon is up. When viewed from a mountain, glories are often seen in association with a Brocken spectre, also called Mountain spectre, the apparently enormously magnified shadow, cast when the moon or sun is low, on clouds below the mountain on which the viewer is standing. The name derives from the Brocken, the tallest peak of the Harz mountain range in Germany. Captured from Dark Sky® Vale do Tua, recently certified as an International Starlight Tourist Destination located in the northern part of Portugal.
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