Supermoon from MTSAT-2R satellite (Not my photo)
Taken by Shiraishi on August 11, 2014 @
Kumagaya-shi, Saitama, Japan, but photo taken from the geostationary orbit
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*This is NOT my photo.
8.5 hours after the super full moon, the Japanese geostationary meteorological satellite MTSAT-2 (Himawari-7) captured the full moon close to the Earth near at noon within its field of view for a visible-light imager.
Due to the aberration of its camera, the moon image is distorted. But the figure is truly of the Moon.
picture: Earthquake Research Institute & Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo, Japan.
I was impressed by the image in which the full-Earth and the full moon are together and besides the full moon is the supermoon!
Note that the satellite flies at an altitude of 36,000km high which is very close to Earth, so the apparent Earth size is much bigger than 4 times of the Moon size.
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