Night Photography of desert of Troud in Iran photo shot by Nikon D610

An old Moon rose this morning, its waning sunlit crescent shining just above the eastern horizon before sunrise.

Of course this little planet is really planet Earth in a digitally stitched 360 x 180 degree mosaic captured high in the Chilean Atacama desert.

The road to the high mountaintop La Silla Observatory in the Chilean Atacama Desert also led to totality in the path of July 2nd's total solar eclipse.