"Next to the big moon, there are even two small moons" In the early morning of the 22nd, Yu Lili, who lives in the Lanting community on the peninsula, called the reporter of this newspaper to inquire after taking pictures.
According to Yu Lili, at about 1:49 a.m. on the 22nd, she woke up in the middle of the night and looked out through the window and found that there were three moons in the sky, and there were two milky white "small moons" next to the glittering milky white big moon, one of which was slightly brighter and the other was faintly visible. "There are not only three people in the shadow, but also Yue Yue." Yu Lili said with a smile.
On many photos taken by Yu Lili, the reporter saw the figure of two "small moons". After the reporter released the circle of friends, it caused many citizens to leave a message below, and some people questioned whether it was caused by the halo problem or the shooting angle problem, but some people thought that if it was an illusion, it was impossible to have it on every photo.
On the morning of the 22nd, the reporter connected to the Purple Mountain Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences without being connected, and then looked up the network and found that this phenomenon was very rare, and a similar situation occurred in Wuhan in the early morning of May 2011. Gao Busi, vice chairman of the Hubei Astronomical Society, said that the two "small moons" are likely to be what is called "false moons" in astronomy. The cause of the false moon is similar to the moon halo, that is, there are some small water droplets in the clouds in the sky, and when the moonlight is refracted through the water droplets, it forms a mirror image, which is the "false moon". "False moons" are generally round or oval in the form of inner infrared violet, and the number varies from one to more.
Editor-in-Charge: Chan Yuan
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