“Space is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space.” –

Douglas Adams

Every now and then, on a clear night, we should just look up and marvel at the majesty of it all. Of course in many places around the world that is just not possible due to light pollution I feel sorry for you.

Or you could have some expensive camera gear and capture an image of the most familiar object in the night sky. Then perhaps while editing the resultant image you zoom in on the inky black background to the image and…

Suddenly you experience a Dave Bowman moment…