Fly Paper

This fly has been buzzing around our place for days and I think he’s finally getting tired. He’ll land and stay pretty still for several minutes at a time. I took the opportunity to snap a few shots.

Moon in Motion

I took several shots of the moon a couple of weeks ago and parsed them together into this single exposure, showing just a small portion of the path of the moon as it travels around the Earth.

Earthshine

Light from the sun hits the moon on one side, resulting in the sliver of light we normally see from a waxing moon, and it also reflects off the Earth toward the moon, faintly illuminating the entire lunar surface. The bright light to the left is the planet Venus, which is currently slightly farther away from Earth than the sun. The blue star just above the moon is Dabih, which is more than 344 lightyears from Earth (meaning the light we see from that star now has taken 344 years to reach us.)