The Closing Fat Moon

Identified to some in the northern hemisphere as December’s Chilly Moon or the Long Evening Moon, the last elephantine moon of 2023 is rising in this surreal mountain and skyscape. The Daliesque scene changed into captured in a single exposure with a camera and lengthy telephoto lens approach Monte Grappa, Italy. The elephantine moon is no longer melting, though. Its stretched and distorted appearance approach the horizon is precipitated as refraction along the line of check adjustments and creates shifting pictures or mirages of the bright lunar disk. The adjustments in atmospheric refraction correspond to atmospheric layers with sharply assorted temperatures and densities. Other results of atmospheric refraction produced by the lengthy check-line to this elephantine moon rising encompass the thin crimson rim seen faintly on the distorted decrease fringe of the Moon and a thin green rim along the high.