Tonight's (almost) half moon:
Instead of using a telescope, I hooked an ancient, bargain bin Vivitar 400mm lens up to the D100, and shot away. This one looked best, at ISO 800, f/8 and a five millisecond exposure. This picture has been downsized one third and slightly sharpened (unsharp mask: 200:0.2:0.) The white balance was set for daylight to show the atmospheric reddening as Luna was very low in the sky when I shot it about an hour ago (at 10:00 MST.)
And this one's just pretty:
More in the theme of Neruda's line, Breaking abandoned things
