Mars & The Moon

The red planet, Mars hung out with the Moon this past night. I watched the pair rise in the east around 10pm. Unfortunately, I didn't get the camera out for the event. Conveniently, the pair were high overhead when I awoke in the morning. Not wanting to miss the same event twice, I put the camera on a tripod and headed outside to snap the accompanying image.
The image is a composed from two separate images. The first was 1/1000 second exposure... designed to tame the brightness of the moon. The second was a 1/8 second exposure... designed to capture the color of Mars. The pair were then overlayed in PhotoShop.
Events like this are known as conjunctions... or alignments... and have been thought to convey all kinds of supernatural meanings through the years. Nowadays, we just see them for what they really are... the comings and goings of Earth's nearest celestial neighbors.