To celebrate, I bring you the moon itself.
The whole thing, first:
(Photo credit: hypergenesb, and I highly recommend you check out the Flickr page of the photo. He has the picture very well annotated.)
And closer up, it's even more pockmarked.
(Photo credit: Omar Eduardo)
(Photo credit: James Jordan)
Sometimes stuff gets in front of the moon, and somehow that only makes it prettier.
(Photo credit: James Jordan)
(Photo credit: bobtravis)
And sometimes, the "something" in front of the moon is the Earth itself, which is even cooler.
(Photo credit: makelessnoise)
(Photo credit: tizianoj)
If moonlight is just sunlight repackaged, why isn't it toxic to (non-sparkly) vampires? Just because it's indirect?
(Photo credit: johncarney)
I like it when the moon has a halo around it.
(Photo credit: thombo2)
And finally, a tiny sliver of a crescent:
(Photo credit: makelessnoise)
Want more cool pictures? It's snowing here again, so I've got to link to my collection of snow pictures.
