The mountaintop dome of Kitt Peak National Observatory near Tucson, Arizona is illuminated by light from a last quarter moon. Jupiter can be seen just left of the overexposed lunar disk. Near the center of the picture is a moondog or paraselene, directly over Kitt Peak's WIYN telescope. A paraselene is produced by moonlight refracted through thin, heaxagonal, plate-shaped ice crystals in high cirrus clouds.
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