A crescent moon, just 45-hours-young, poses with the Pleiades star cluster in the constellation Taurus as the two follow the sun into the horizon. Though these two objects appear very close in the sky, there are many trillions-of-miles and many millions-of-years between them. Luna is about 4-billion-years-old and is located some 239,000 miles away. Pleiades is estimated at 100-million-years-young and is about 440-light-years distant. (Click here for full-sized image.)
Beautiful Tavi!!!! - but how is it that the Moon is not overexposed?? Whenever I try something like that = no stars + overexposed Moon??
2009-05-04 22:12:09 GMT
Tavi
Liz, I think the key might be time of night. I noticed that the darker it gets, the greater the chance for over-exposure with the moon. When I took this shot, Pleiades was not quite visible to the unaided eye. Most of my subsequent shots, as the sky grew darker, resulted in either an over-exposed moon or an under-exposed background and Pleiades.
