Date: 2025-07-12
Winner is Alexsandro Mota
Author’s Description:
As the Sun set, a bright Full Moon rose on July 10. Its golden light illuminates clouds drifting through southern hemisphere skies in this well-composed telephoto image from Conceição do Coité, Bahia, Brazil. The brightest lunar phase is captured here with both a short and long exposure. The two exposures were combined to reveal details of the lunar surface in bright moonlight and a subtle iridescence along the dramatically backlit cloudscape. Of course, July’s Full Moon is a winter moon in the southern hemisphere. But in the north it’s known to some as the Thunder Moon, likely a nod to the sounds of this northern summer month’s typically stormy weather.
Link: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2507/LUA_JULHO_25_1024.jpg
Image: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2507/LUA_JULHO_25_2048.jpg
