Moon and Mars

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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”

  1. Bill Kendall Avatar
    Bill Kendall

    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

  2. kirk moore Avatar
    kirk moore

    Awesome!!!

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Stephen Johnson is a landscape photographer, designer and teacher. He has been photographing since 1973. His work has been featured in Communication Arts, Life Magazine, American Photo, Outdoor Photographer, and ABC Discovery News, among many others. His books include At Mono Lake, the award winning and critically acclaimed The Great Central Valley: California’s Heartland, Making a Digital Book and the new Stephen Johnson on Digital Photography. Internationally recognized as a digital photography pioneer, Johnson's photographs have been exhibited, published and collected in the United States, Europe, Mexico and Japan. In 1994 he embarked on With A New Eye, the ground breaking all digital photographic look at American national parks, to be published in due course. In 2003 he was inducted into the Photoshop Hall of Fame. Canon named him to their Explores of Light program in 2006 and X-Rite as a founding member of their exclusive Coloratti color experts group in 2007. Stephen is well-known for his passionate lectures and love for the traditions of fine photography. From Photoshop features, to cameras, printers, and papers, Stephen's consulting with high tech imaging companies have helped shape the very tools we all use today. His photography studios, galleries and education center are located in Pacifica, California. www.sjphoto.com

2 thoughts on “Moon and Mars”

  1. 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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