The Ultimate Graduation Photo

When you know you've got two graduation ceremonies in the course of your degree, this is clearly the best possible thing to co-ordinate, even if you look daft in front of the entire course and their extended family

minor hiccups were:

1. one was taken on a very sunny day and another taken in the shade, hence the black and white
2. getting the hands to match up
3. not being able to afford a fancy version of photoshop and being too feart to be a pirate
4. I suck

background: The planetary nebula NGC 2818, captured by the Hubble telescope in a file image.