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A full moon sinking behind San Gorgonio Mountain, California, on a midsummer morning. Moonrise and moonset are times when the upper limb of the Moon appears above the horizon and disappears below it, respectively. The exact times depend on the lunar phase and declination, as well as the observer's location.
The precise dates of Manhattanhenge depend on the date of the summer solstice, which varies from year to year, but remains close to June 21. In 2014, the "full sun" Manhattanhenge occurred on May 30 at 8:18 p.m., and on July 11 at 8:24 p.m. [ 9 ] The event has attracted increasing attention in recent years.
The full moon, called a 'strawberry moon' because of its reddish hue, will appear right after the summer solstice. In L.A., it will rise at about 7:24 p.m. Friday.
Salesforce Tower is adjacent to the Salesforce Transit Center, a 1,430 feet (440 m) transit station that replaced the San Francisco Transbay Terminal, which had been severely damaged as a result of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake and served as the central focus of the San Francisco redevelopment plan. The building is located near Millennium Tower.
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Since Earth's diameter is 3.7 times the Moon's, the length of the planet's umbra is correspondingly 3.7 times the average distance from the Moon to the Earth: roughly 1,400,000 km (870,000 mi). The width of the Earth's shadow at the distance of the lunar orbit is approximately 9000 km (~ 2.6 lunar diameters), which allows people of the Earth to ...
The same year 20 acres (8.1 ha) at the top of Mount Davidson was purchased by the city of San Francisco for use as a park with funds donated by the Mount Davidson Conservation Committee, led by Mrs. Edmund N. "Madie" Brown. [4] [11] Mrs. A. S. Baldwin donated a further 6 acres (2.4 ha) on the summit to the city at the same time. [4]
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