20100101

Full moon, blue moon

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Originally uploaded by Waifer X

The second full moon in a calendar month (a "blue moon," here just past full and now waning gibbous), on New Year's Eve, 2009. Taken with a handheld Panasonic LZ-8 camera through a 32 mm eyepiece on a commercial (Galileo CT-1380 f1260 mm x 120 mm) catadiopteric reflector. Photo by Cuesta College Physical Sciences Division instructor Dr. Patrick M. Len.

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