At 4:30 this morning, I looked east up the street and saw the moon had just risen over an empty field. The new moon happens day after tomorrow, and this crescent is all that is left of October's harvest moon.
Wow! That picture was taken with a Nikon 950 hand-held to the eyepiece of a dobsonian reflector telescope. (6" f/5 with a 32 mm. Erfle eyepiece, 1/30 sec. exposure)
I'm feeling pretty confident of my hand holding abilities, so I trained the scope on Jupiter. The image was more difficult to obtain, because the scope magnification was much higher, and, since the scope is a dobsonian, it does not track the sky.
(6" f/5 with a 4.7 mm. Nagler eyepiece, 1/4 sec. exposure)
