Why bother with a fake Christmas moon when you have the real thing right above your nose? The picture was taken at 19:11 this evening with a 210 mm lens on a hand-held Nikon D70. If I had used a tripod the picture would have been sharper.
The moon looks like a ripe mellon ready to be taken out of the sky.
Update: on December 27 we not only have a full moon, but the moon will be in its apogee (the furthest from the earth). More info.
And isn't it spooky that just now we have that awful earthquake in SE Asia? Read Larry Niven's Inconstant Moon.
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