Nature photographers and other fans of planet Earth always look forward to the blue hour. Thats the transition in twilight, just before sunrise or after sunset, when the Sun is below the horizon but land and sky are still suffused with a beautiful blue light. After sunset on August 21, this blue hour snapshot captured the nearly full Moon as it rose opposite the Sun, above the rugged Italian Alps from Cortina dAmpezzo, Italy. Sharing bluish hues with the sky, the rocky pyramid of Monte Antelao, also known as the King of the Dolomites, is the regions prominent alpine peak. The moonlight is yellow, but even so this full Moon was known to some as a seasonal Blue Moon. Thats because by one definition the third full Moon of a season with four full moons in it is called a Blue Moon. Recognizing a season as the time between a solstice and an equinox, this seasons fourth full Moon will be rising in the blue hour of September 20, just before Septembers equinox.