My whole weekend was worth it for this shot. I’ve always wanted to take a picture like this of the moon.
It rose in an inconvenient part of the sky, and nowhere near the city. And it was way too high by the time it was dark to get a good silhouette of anything in front of it. So all of the people parked on the same hill as me were grumbling about how all we could hope for was a clearly-shot moon in a sea of boring black. Which is what I got.
And I love it.
Edward Lear. Nonsense Botany and Nonsense Alphabets
The hazy and aptly named Fine Ring Nebula, shown here, is an unusual planetary nebula. Planetary nebulae form when some dying stars, having expanded into a red giant phase, expel a shell of gas as they evolve into white dwarfs. Most planetary nebulae are either spherical or elliptical in shape, or bipolar (featuring two symmetric lobes of material). | image: ESO
