Copyright:Miguel Claro
原文:
Innermost planet Mercury and a thin crescent Moon are never found far from the Sun in planet Earth’s skies. Taken near dusk on April 8, this colorful evening skyscape shows them both setting toward the western horizon just after the Sun. The broad Tagus River and city lights of Lisbon, Portugal run through the foreground under the serene twilight sky. Near perigee or closest approach to Earth, the Moon’s bright, slender crescent represents about 3 percent of the lunar disk in sunlight. Of course as seen from the Moon, a nearly full Earth would light up the lunar night, and that strong perigee earthshine makes the rest of the lunar disk visible in this scene. Bright Mercury stays well above the western horizon at sunset for northern skywatchers in the coming days. The fleeting planet reaches maximum elongation, or angular distance from the Sun, on April 18. But Mercury will swing back toward the Sun and actually cross the solar disk on May 9, the first transit of Mercury since November 8, 2006.
中文翻譯:
在四月八日的黃昏,內行星水星和細長的新月總是出現在地球天空中距離太陽不遠的位置。這幅色彩繽紛的夜空景觀顯示它們正隨著太陽一起向西邊的地平線緩緩落下。廣闊的塔古斯河及葡萄牙里斯本的城市燈光在前景中閃爍,映襯著寧靜的黃昏天空。此時的月球正處於近地點(即最接近地球的位置),明亮的纖細新月只反射出約3%的月面光亮。當然,從月球上看,幾乎滿月的地球會照亮月球的夜空,而這強烈的近地點地球明亮度使整個月面都在這一場景中可見。明亮的水星在即將到來的幾天裡,在日落後的西邊地平線上始終保持一定的高度。水星將於四月十八日達到最大展開角,即與太陽的角距離。但水星將再次朝向太陽移動,並於五月九日穿越太陽的光盤,這是自2006年11月8日以來首次出現的水星凌日現象。
#水星 #月亮 #近地點 #黃昏天空 #里斯本 #塔古斯河 #天文觀察 #首次水星凌日 #天空之美 #天文攝影
來源:NASA每日圖片