“I don’t think necessity is the mother of invention — invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble. That is the big secret that has brought us down the ages hundreds of thousands of years, from chipping flints to switching on the washing machine.”
— Agatha Christie, from her splendid autobiography.
Three days after my previous one, a gloriously orangey moon, but now partly in shadow, so you get to see a few more contours.
I don’t really have the proper equipment for this; this is a crop from a photo taken with a 200mm zoom lens on my Fuji XT-2. But I’m still quite pleased with the result.
You can click on the image to see a slightly larger version, and go here for a map of where the lunar landings were.
I’ve never really looked this closely before, but it’s cool that I can at least identify the basic locations from my study window.
Buzz Aldrin’s footprint is about here:
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