“It was just a colour out of space—a messenger from unformed realms of infinity beyond all Nature as we know it; from realms whose mere existence stuns the brain and numbs us with the black extra-cosmic gulfs it throws open before our frenzied eyes.”

~H.P. Lovecraft

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This is the view looking southwest from the edge of the Hopi Mesas, with Nuva’tak’yaovi -the San Francisco Peaks- in the background, and the planet Venus blazing overhead; as comet Tsuchinshan–ATLAS makes it’s departure from Tuuwa’nasaavi – The Center of the Universe.

This was a 30-second exposure using the auto settings on my camera phone. I bumped up the contrast & saturation by +15.