Jacksonville Dreamy Night Sky Countdown Timer

This is a composite, obviously. Nobody's sky has a moon the size of a city block and a spiral galaxy parked in the corner, and the little watermark down in the bottom right announces exactly what it is, a dreamy world, not a documentary one. But I keep coming back to it because it understands something true about Jacksonville at night, which is that the river turns the whole downtown into a smear of colour and the city feels, briefly, like somewhere much grander than it is. The Main Street Bridge arcs across in the middle distance, lit up, and the banks on either side are full of low buildings and one or two towers with their windows still on. I have stood on that riverbank for real, on an ordinary night with an ordinary moon, and the water did the same thing to the lights, pulled them down into long bruised reflections. I have never actually seen a galaxy from that bank, or a moon that close, but I have seen the river on a humid night do something close enough that the lie feels earned. The fantasy version just says the quiet part out loud.