Ominous Moon

Photo from last week. The moon over SpaceX. Totally unaltered. This is what the moon looked like. And earlier in the evening when it was lower on the horizon it looked like an ominous broken moon crashing into the earth. (Also, we're breathing that air...blech)

The photo below is photoshopped (well, with MS Paint and MS Word) to try and recapture that scene, but imagine it with the highway and skyscrapers in the foreground (couldn't take that picture while driving). Magnificent:

$16 telescope at CVS + optics from an old spotting scope = moonstography!

Blogger didn't like my cropping; click here for the orginal.
(Unaltered except cropping and exposure)

Update: looks like last night when I took that photo, the moon was at perigee, the biggest and brightest moon of 2009.

And a playlist for moon-gazing:

Creedence Clearwater Revival - Bad Moon Risin'
Van Morrison - Moondance
Elton John - Rocketman
King Harvest - Dancin' in the Moonlight
Santana - Smooth

SeeqPod - Playable Search

SpaceX Holiday Party

Me and Housemates at the SpaceX (belated) Christmas Party last night in LA.
Clockwise from right: Jim, Casey, Jess, myself.
Yes, that is in fact how we roll.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from us at Burnout House.