Moon+Pleiades

A few nights ago, the moon cruised past the Pleiades. I took some photos, with limited success. The moon was vastly brighter than the stars, so the stars aren’t visible when the moon is properly exposed, and when the exposure was right for the stars, the moon is massively washed out.

NOTE: feel free to print out these pictures and tape them to a Louisville Slugger. Then  the next time some freakin’ moron trots out the “moon landings didn’t happen because you can’t see any stars in the photos taken on the moon,” well… do something creative.