Manhattan Moonrise

Explanation: A Full Moon rose as the Sun set on June 9, known to some as a Strawberry Moon. Close to the horizon and taking on the warm color of reflected sunlight filtered through a dense and dusty atmosphere, the fully illuminated lunar disk poses with the skyscrapers along the southern Manhattan skyline in this telephoto snapshot. The picture was taken from Eagle Rock Reservation, a park in West Orange, New Jersey, planet Earth. That's about 13 miles from southern Manhattan and some 240,000 miles from the Moon . Foreground faces of the modern towers of steel and glass share the Moon's warm color by reflecting the last rays of the setting Sun . The tallest, with the shining triangular facet, is New York City's One World Trade Center .