A Rare Red Orb in the Sky

Photo date: May 12, 2015. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

Below we see a photo of the night sky that shows something that rarely appears in my photos of the sky: a red orb, visible in the top left corner of this photo.

Below is a closeup of the red orb.

These photos have not been color-adjusted, and look exactly as in the original photo. The object above was not the moon, which was less than a half moon on this night. There was no fog, mist, rain, or precipitation on this night. The air quality as listed on airnow.gov was "good," with a rating of 44.