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Cake day: July 6th, 2023

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  • https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250325.html

    Explanation: What causes a blue band to cross the Moon during a lunar eclipse? The blue band is real but usually quite hard to see. The featured HDR image of last week’s lunar eclipse, however – taken from Norman, Oklahoma (USA) – has been digitally processed to exaggerate the colors. The gray color on the upper right of the top lunar image is the Moon’s natural color, directly illuminated by sunlight. The lower parts of the Moon on all three images are not directly lit by the Sun since it is being eclipsed – it is in the Earth’s shadow. It is faintly lit, though, by sunlight that has passed deep through Earth’s atmosphere. This part of the Moon is red – and called a blood Moon – for the same reason that Earth’s sunsets are red: because air scatters away more blue light than red. The unusual purple-blue band visible on the upper right of the top and middle images is different – its color is augmented by sunlight that has passed high through Earth’s atmosphere, where red light is better absorbed by ozone than blue.





  • besmtt@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldSo much Love for a Friend
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    2 months ago

    I wasn’t considering the joke. I zoomed in on the face and those wrinkles looked suspicious to me. Then I started looking at the background and that’s when I started thinking the image was slop? ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

    Oh and the ears too. They just don’t seem realistic to me.




  • This isn’t going to be an option very often, but when the conditions are just right I like to leave windows open overnight to cool down the house. If it’s going to be below 60°F and above 80°F the next day, it works best for me. Keep an eye on the dew point though because too much humidity isn’t great. I like to open windows on one side of the house then open another in the other side with a powerful pedestal fan sitting about 4 feet away. That seems to work best for moving air through the house and usually lets me get away without running the AC the next day. Also, Vornado makes a transom window fan that fits snuggly in the window case, that’s a great balance between blocking out a bit more noise because the window isn’t wide open, it’s a noise machine, and a huge benefit is it’s reversible.

    Good luck!