Paunchy Observatory Moon

A preferred name for January’s beefy moon in the northern hemisphere is the Paunchy Wolf Moon. As the unusual twelve months’s first beefy moon, it rises over Las Campanas Observatory on this dramatic Earth-and-moonscape. Peering from the foreground fancy exact eyes are the observatory’s twin 6.5 meter diameter Magellan telescopes. The snapshot was captured with telephoto lens across rugged terrain in the Chilean Atacama Barren region, taken at a distance of about 9 miles from the observatory and about 240,000 miles from the lunar ground. Obviously the principle beefy moon of the lunar unusual twelve months, identified to some as the Paunchy Snow Moon, will upward push on February 24.