Moon, Jupiter, and Beehive

• In the upper left is Earth's moon. Above the brightly-lit crescent portion, the dark side of the moon is illuminated by "Earthshine" -- sunlight reflected off the far side of the Earth. This is also known by the poetic name "the new moon in the old moon's arms." The moon is 228 thousand miles from Earth.
  
  
• In the lower right is the bright planet Jupiter. If you look very close to Jupiter, you can see two of the planet's moons: Ganymede (above) and Callisto (below). Jupiter is 56 million miles from Earth.
  
  
• Between the moon and Jupiter (but closer to Jupiter) can be faintly seen a sprinkling of stars known as the "Beehive." Also known as the Praesepe, M44, and NGC 2632, this star cluster is 3 quadrillion (3,000,000,000,000,000) miles from Earth!
  

Location: Phoenix, Arizona.
Date: September 4, 2002.
Time: 5:09 a.m. MST.
Camera: Olympus OM-1 35mm SLR on fixed tripod.
Film: Kodak Ektachrome E200 slide.
Focal length: 200 mm.
Aperture: f/4.
Exposure time: 5 seconds.
Scanner: Nikon Coolscan LS-2000 (cropped).