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In the wake of the Artemis II lunar flyby in April 2026, I had a brief hyperfixation with the moon. With prevailing clear skies, a new tripod and my favourite 300mm lens, images of the moon suddenly felt within reach.

I spent the next two weeks outside each evening, watching the moon on its wobbly path, gaining a fresh appreciation for the angles of the sun and moon, and how fortunate - on an astronomical level - we are to have such a stable companion as we whirl around our star.

A bright full moon glowing through layered clouds. The moonshine makes the clouds glow grey-blue, surrounded by an indistinct copper-coloured ring of lunar corona. A bright full moon shining through a lozenge-shaped cloud. Other small clouds hover around the edges of the image, cast red by the lunar corona. A close-up of a crescent moon, arcing across the bottom-right of the image. Deep craters along the terminator are cast in long shadows, and the lit side is full of details in variegated grey until it turns to white along the very edge. A square image of a wide crescent moon, approaching half-lit, against a black sky. There is a cluster of deep craters near the centre of the image revealed by the changing moon phase. A wide shot of the night sky, with the crescent moon crisp and clear in the top-right corner, and a speck of light - Jupiter - in the bottom-left corner. A daytime photo of the half-moon against a royal blue sky. The details of the moon still stand out clearly, from seas to craters. A composite of a half moon moving across the camera lens from top-left to bottom right, photos taken 90 seconds apart. The earlier images are semi-transparent, echoes of where the moon had been previously. A half moon against a royal blue sky, this time with the lit side facing upwards. A somewhat-blurry photo of the moon peeking out from behind dense clouds, between power lines. The surrounding cloud is multi-layered, and the moonlight casts fascinating pinks and browns across the different layers. A grey half-moon against a black sky. Large deep-grey seas can be seen on the lit half of the moon, and along the terminator, craters cast long shadows until they vanish into the lunar night.
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