I really can't stop looking at this photo - We usually think of space as being entirely empty and dark, but our Sun has a lot of dust around it that we can rarely see. This so called Zodiacal light is giving the moon this eerie backlit glow.
And four people really have been there and witnessed this yesterday, absolutely blows my mind!
Credit: NASA
Processing: Simeon Schmauß
Full quality: https://flic.kr/p/2s6ionW
I was ready to go to bed late last night, but continued to listen to the audio descriptions from the astronauts which were incredibly captivating. In my mind I was painting a picture of this scene, and the images certainly didn't disappoint.
This is a HDR merge combining the long exposure art002e009573 with the shorter art002e009571. I also fixed the motion blurred stars with deconvolution and applied some noise reduction and slight color adjustmens.
Simeon Schmauß