2021 May 1

Famed in festival, story, and song the best known full moon is the Harvest Moon.

Is this a painting or a photograph?

The road to the high mountaintop La Silla Observatory in the Chilean Atacama Desert also led to totality in the path of July 2nd's total solar eclipse.

"Oh my God! Look at that picture over there! Here's the Earth coming up. Wow is that pretty!"

This is a gibbous Moon. More Earthlings are familiar with a full moon, when the entire face of Luna is lit by the Sun, and a crescent moon, when only a sliver of the Moon's face is lit.

Taken near local midnight, this autumn night's panorama follows the arch of the Milky Way across the northern horizon from the High Fens, Eifel Nature Park at the border of Belgium and Germany.

On October 10, a new telescope reflected the light of the setting Sun.

What's happened to the Moon? Nothing, but something has happened to the image of the Moon.

Mars is also known as The Red Planet, often seen with a reddish tinge in dark night skies.