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Bright Red Planet in Sky...... im not joking...
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does anyone know what it is??
Quoting: Kcchamps The moon. "Blood Moon over Utah" "We have lots of wildfires going on right now, so there's a ton of haze in the sky. I couldn't see anything else in the sky, so I just had to take a shot. I wasn't kidding, I didn't touch the colors. It looked crazy!" [ link to www.flickr.com] It looks red because of smoke from wildfires in the area. That photo was from August 14th, but it's the same story tonight. At the time OP says he took his photo, at 5:22 UT, the moon should have been about 20 degrees above the horizon in the southwest, at 218.22 degrees azimuth with an apparent orientation of 25.64 degrees from vertical with the illuminated limb facing down towards the horizon as seen from the middle of Utah (39.5 N 111.5 W). [ link to dropcanvas.com] Other recent examples from Utah: [ link to www.flickr.com] [ link to www.flickr.com] Quoting: Dr. Astro ooooo the great astro has a answer for everything.... absolutely love seeing the astro squirm.
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