The planet Mars

Mars is at its closest to the Earth right now and yesterday went right behind the Moon (and out the other side of course!) a process known as 'occultation'. If you look at the whole photo you'll see that Mars has now moved away to the right and above the Moon. The Moon is over-exposed because if I exposed correctly for the Moon you wouldn't see Mars at all. Separate photos taken after show a) the Moon more correctly exposed and b) a fun shot of Mars where I have ultra-zoomed into the picture which would otherwise be nothing more than a modest pinhead in siize.