red Mars round Moon

If you're awake and have any kind of interest in such things, and if it's not all cloudy, go outside and look at the moon right now. Mars is right above it; I've never seen them so close together.


I happened to notice it while looking out the window; hadn't even read that tonight is also their closest approach:
https://www.space.com/see-mars-moon-labor-day-2020-weekend-skywatching.html

Well, dang. In the time it took to write that, some hazy clouds moved in and right now Mars is no longer visible from here. But let me check the photos I took before...

The photos are meh. With this camera, the moon always turns out as a bright blob with no details no matter what settings I use. Although I just thought of another setting I should have tried changing (light metering method), but now the clouds are darkening even the moon too.

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It's interesting that I still get excited over things like this.