My phone shot was waaay worse than that, but in my defence I did get Pollux in as well.

@pareidolia.bsky.social This seems to work from side-on views as well.

Although the original orientation of the picture was, as Apollo came round from the back of the moon was...

Likewise

The increasing popularity of smart telescopes can help. I have (too much) expensive telescopery and live in the cloudy midlands, but my SeeStar and Dwarf 3 with their very quick setup times allow me to get out quickly when the sky at night clears. Beginners thrive on early results. Smart scopes help

Yup. Only six stars though.

These are snuggling up to the Moon at the moment, I'm told.

Hazy clouds sneak up here and win. As usual. Moon can have this one.

OK, I like that, but I'd like it more if my Oscar would walk in through the catflap. He hasn't been seen for a month.

Oscar, on the wrong side of the window.

My SeeStar S30 is imaging the California nebula even as I type. Clever machine, but unlikely, I suspect, to challenge the JWST.

Cats? Cats in the sun you say? Here's the fluffy idiot Oscar - a cat in the sunshine.

It is! They are! Right behind those clouds.

Although as Apollo 8 orbited around the moon's equator and the original image had North as Up, Earth appeared at the left of the lunar surface, not the top. The original image frame is shown in this Wiki page.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthrise

Either somebody has made a mistake with the image for this story or UK farmers' protests are even more serious than has been reported.