- ....ooow my!!!! What a misterious, gorgeous shot!! Wonderful capture and presentation! ;)

Hello dear friend! This is an attractive image and the very significant words! I simply being catholic I recognize objectively that the Church of Rome... in the centuries committed several mistakes of evaluation.. It has then also recognized the mistake and asked forgiveness... certainty.. did not be surely a swift ravvedimento. ..perbetter late than never! ..Ma meanwhile the dear Galileo. .. Hello dear friend! V!I wish you to very nice day! I send You very friendly greetings! A big hug! :-))

Magnificent capture, the moon has inspired many for thousands of years and still continues to do so.. bravo, well done!

That the Catholic Church for ya! the attrocities commited in the name of God during Galileo's time are many and cuel, but I suppose the church has changed now..... great photo with amazing thought provoking words.

breath taking absolutely breath taking ..forgotten about Galileo...fantastic work....often think to my self.. the bible was written by the same people who said the earth was flat..winks... excellent and sublime :)..votee

Those bastards! Excellent photo!!!

Yes, Tyranny. I am sorry sometimes the voice recognition system that I use misunderstands a word... Please, no one should take personal offense to the picture. This is just history that happened on January 20th.

Let us hope that theocracy is truly dead, otherwise we will be plunged back into a new dark age.

Let me first say that I am not Catholic.... If I remember my history Galileo while obviously a remarkable intelligent and learned man, was also rude, crude, belligerent, arrogant and not adverse to flaying his contemporaries alive with what amounts to libelous speeches and writings. He was accused of heresy by another two other astronomers named Scheiner and Grassi, both his contemporaries and noted scientists in their own right. He actually lifted some of Scheiners ideas and used them for his own. While he was correct most of the time, he was wrong in his assumptions on several occasions, including his hypothesis on how the tides were created. Principally he also published a book in Italy at the time entitled "Simplicus" which mostly called the Pope a fool in no uncertain terms....it was after all this that the bully Galileo ran into an even bigger bully, the Inquisition. He was not held in jail, he was kept under house arrest and treated very well indeed... no torture, the Inquisitors were Italian, not Spanish. He was convicted of "holding for an opinion he could not prove at a time when such opinion was heretic" and sentenced to life in house arrest. The sentence was commuted when he copped a plea and admitted he could be wrong. As a matter of fact Scheiner and Grassi were both on the verge of adopting the same beliefs as Galileo and did so a few years later. It was the fact of Galileo's belligerent and arrogant treatment of these learned men that caused them to refrain for so long. In other words Galileo was a great scientist, but he seems to have been a rather craphead as a human being.....especially if you didn't believe exactly as he did and hold all his theories as golden. Anyway that's what I remember..... Great image, I really do love it...wish I could afford a good telescope myself......

Wonderful planets, Foto and artwork, fantastic textur, light, colors and mood!

Nice one!

Super image! You are really showing off some very neat stuff here! You are not only a wonderful Artist, photographer but a History teacher too! ha! I learn so much from you, we all do! Touching photo and information, fits right together! Excellent and a V.

and to this day, people persecute ideas and forward thinking in the name of religion. Galileo was no pioneer with his ideas about planetary positions. "In 1530, Copernicus completed and gave to the world his great work De Revolutionibus, which asserted that the earth rotated on its axis once daily and traveled around the sun once yearly: a fantastic concept for the times." (It is to be noted that one of the ancient Greek astronomers, Aristarchus, did have ideas similar to those more fully developed by Copernicus but they were rejected in favour of the geocentric or earth-centered scheme as was espoused by Aristotle.) n, it was believed (and still believed by some) was made by God in His image, man was the next thing to God, and, as such, superior, especially in his best part, his soul, to all creatures, indeed this part was not even part of the natural world (a philosophy which has proved disastrous to the earth's environment as any casual observer of the 20th century might confirm by simply looking about). Copernicus' theories might well lead men to think that they are simply part of nature and not superior to it and that ran counter to the theories of the politically powerful churchmen of the time. And to this day, pig-eyed political and religious leaders forward the cause of ignorance and destruction. Big Den, Isaac Newton was nobody's prince charming either.

outstanding and impressive presentation and words! also a fantastic work! how many times those mistakes happens on the world, and many made by the catholic church, indeed! ;o)

Are we such simpletons in our modern world that we can not see the holes in our "christian" theories. Galilieo, regardless of his personality, put an idea into play. Because Gelilieo's theories threated the control mechanism of the religiously afflicted power mongers of that time, Galilieo was persecuted. Again, regardless of his personality, Galilieo presented and idea. Why is it that when an idea doesn't conform to the "christian model", then it is WRONG WRONG WRONG? If I am not mistaken, it is a SINGLE person's beliefs that count in that single person's life. Churches (regardless of denomination) be damned...when we conform to one way of thought, and strike down all others, we have truly become mentally challenged. We all need to remember that the world around us can be interpreted by all...and NONE of us know FOR SURE where we came from, OR where we will end up after death. The beauty of the moon in this shot explains that perfectly... no matter what anyone believes, the moon will continue to orbit the earth until we or the moon no longer exists. I think that religion should be taken a little less seriously, and a lot more like folklore. IMHO

I got a descent shot of the moon myself, but I like the way this look.. Do u know if we see diffrent sides of the moon?

excellent dramatic presentation & shot!! :]