This photograph was taken just after twilight, as the sun was still saying its last goodbyes to the mountains on a brisk Southern Californian day. I was looking to capture the moment when the moon takes over the sky and the stars begin to spill across the horizon. The telescope is a way for us to investigate the moon and stars. As a child I spent many chilly nights bundled up waiting for this moment, for the sun to sink down over the horizon and the stars and the moon to begin to fill the sky with color and light. I spent many hours just laying under the stars as my dad took out his telescope to investigate the vast universe that was set before us.