April 2, 2010
The same gravity that holds galaxies together and keeps planets in their orbits also held you to the Earth on the day you were born.
Serene Paraselene
Birthday · April 2, 2010
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APOD published April 2, 2010. Credit: Tamas Ladanyi. A publication-date match, not a photo taken on your date. Independent of NASA.
Nestled in the Austrian Alps, frozen Lake Ossiach stretches across the foreground of this serene view. Recorded on March 1, the night sky includes a nearly full Moon and bright planet Saturn seen through thin clouds near picture center. It also includes a remarkably bright and colorful moondog or paraselene at the left. Analogous to a sundog or parhelion, the paraselene is produced by moonlight shining through thin, hexagonal-shaped ice crystals in high cirrus clouds. As determined by the ice crystal geometry, the Moon is 22 degrees from the lovely paraselene.
Image credit: Tamas Ladanyi