Mars slipping behind the Moon tonight. Mars at 51 million miles, Moon at about 250,000 miles. Mars: 4,222 miles in diameter, Moon: 2159 miles. I was looking forward to this event. It seemed like a moment to be witnessed. It turned out to be much more than that, becoming a story of size, distance and wonder.
The International Space Station flew above us just minutes before, arcing brightly across the western sky. Suddenly a meteor streaked down just below the ISS while we were watching its transit. It was quite a space evening.
Canon R5 RF800mm lens.
2 responses to “Moon and Mars”
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Wonderful! So glad you were able to capture this event – and a beautiful day in Bay Area “paradise” sure helped with the atmospheric clarity. You capture a fine sense of scale and the polar ice cap, which doesn’t show up in today’s published image at APOD: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap221209.html
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Awesome!!!
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