Light Falls

Beyond the Frame

Channel 33, the last one, is the night sky. These 13 frames are ordered by how long their light travelled to reach the camera: about a second from the Moon, two and a half million years from Andromeda.

  1. 01The Moon, HDR1.3 seconds
  2. 02Almost Full Moon1.3 seconds
  3. 03Almost Full Moon, from video1.3 seconds
  4. 04Full Worm Moon1.3 seconds
  5. 05The Moon at 300mm1.3 seconds
  6. 06The Sun, inverted8 minutes 20 seconds
  7. 07Jupiterbetween 33 and 53 minutes
  8. 08The Pleiades at 135mmabout 440 years
  9. 09Pleiades, California Nebula and Taurus440 to 1,000 years
  10. 10The Belt of Orionabout 1,300 to 2,000 years
  11. 11Orionfrom hundreds of years to about 1,300
  12. 12Cassiopeia to Andromedaup to 2.5 million years
  13. 13M31, the Andromeda Galaxyabout 2.5 million years
A small moon inside a large soft halo of light against a dark grey sky

The Moon, HDR

Light travel1.3 seconds

1 of 13 · 21 December 2023

A nearly full moon with enhanced colours showing blue and brown tones across its seas and craters

Almost Full Moon

Light travel1.3 seconds

2 of 13 · 23 March 2024

A nearly full moon in vivid false colour, blue maria and golden highlands, pulled from a video

Almost Full Moon, from video

Light travel1.3 seconds

3 of 13 · 23 March 2024

A full moon in vivid false colour, blue and gold tones across its surface, bright ray craters

Full Worm Moon

Light travel1.3 seconds

4 of 13 · 25 March 2024

A moon partly lit, its shadowed part glowing faintly, with a bright golden rim against black space

The Moon at 300mm

Light travel1.3 seconds

5 of 13 · 18 April 2024 · X-H2S · 300mm · ƒ/1 · 1s · ISO 160

The full disc of the Sun in orange, its surface finely textured with bright spots near the edges

The Sun, inverted

Light travel8 minutes 20 seconds

6 of 13 · 17 April 2024

A bright point of light with sharp diffraction spikes in a dark starfield, identified as Jupiter

Jupiter

Light travelbetween 33 and 53 minutes

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The Pleiades star cluster glowing blue with soft nebulosity, surrounded by dense faint stars and dust

The Pleiades at 135mm

Light travelabout 440 years

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Starfield with a small blue star cluster, a red nebula at the left edge and dark dust lanes

Pleiades, California Nebula and Taurus

Light travel440 to 1,000 years

9 of 13

Wide starfield around the Belt of Orion with red and pink nebulae and a bright bluish glowing cloud

The Belt of Orion

Light travelabout 1,300 to 2,000 years

10 of 13 · 20 December 2023

Wide starfield of Orion with a faint red arc of nebula, a bright white nebula and small red glows

Orion

Light travelfrom hundreds of years to about 1,300

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Tall starfield with a small elongated galaxy near the top and reddish clouds of the Milky Way below

Cassiopeia to Andromeda

Light travelup to 2.5 million years

12 of 13 · 24 November 2025

The Andromeda Galaxy, a large tilted spiral with a bright core and dust lanes, surrounded by stars

M31, the Andromeda Galaxy

Light travelabout 2.5 million years

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