The last full moon in 2020 adorns the skies of the Arab world and Cairo and appears in pink

The skies of Egypt and the Arab world are witnessing the last full moon of this year 2020, which will also represent the last full moon of the second decade of the 21st century (2011 to 2020), and it will be visible all night long. The moon will rise above the northeast horizon at sunset and simulate the apparent path of the June sun, as it follows the path high in the sky and brightens in front of the constellation of twins, or where the sun will be six months later, so the December full moon reminds us that the long daylight hours of June will return. Once again. He will notice that the apparent size of the moon is large during its sunrise when it is close to the horizon, and that it can be red or orange, but after its height in the sky, its small size returns, and it is only an optical illusion that occurs in the middle of each lunar month.

The pink or orange color in which the moon can appear during its ascension is due to the atmosphere of our planet, since its components work on the dispersion of the white light reflected from the moon, so that the colors of the blue spectrum of short wavelengths are scattered and the long wavelength red spectrum colors reaching Our eyes, this is the same reason we see the reddish setting sun. This is followed by the arrival of the moon at its highest point in the sky at midnight, directly above the viewer’s head, and it will set on the northwest northwest horizon with the rising of the sun Wednesday.

In general, we can say that the moon is full all night, but scientifically we call the moon the full moon when the moon is located at an angle of 180 degrees to the sun, which will occur on the morning of Wednesday, December 30 at the time (03:28 GMT) and will be a half-orbit around the earth during the Month.
This time of month is considered ideal for viewing radioactive craters on the moon’s surface through binoculars or a small telescope, unlike the rest of the terrain which appears flat due to the entire moon falling into the sun, these craters Radiant are deposits of shiny reflective material that extend from the center of craters outward for hundreds of kilometers. That these nozzles are newly formed and that the “Tycho” crater is the most radiating crater.

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