It's not great, but it's a start

I saw the beautiful full moon in the sky tonight with no clouds to block the view and I absolutely had to take some pictures. I've wanted to for the last several nights but it's been cloudy. I really need to remember to take some pictures when it's a new moon because a full moon tends to drown out everything else.

Anywho, my moon picture looks pretty much exactly like my last one so I won't bore you with it. But I did take this one during the day a little while ago.


There's not a lot more I can do with the moon, but I also took some other pictures while I was out tonight.


I know it's hard to tell but this is Mars. This is the best I can do with my camera. I figured out how to auto focus so at least you can tell it's round and that it's orange. I've decided that I want a telephoto lens. That's probably the cheapest way to get a better picture.

I also decided to try some pictures of stars.


For those who don't know, these are the Pleiades. A group of bright stars that you can see in the West in the evening. I left the shutter open for four seconds for this one. Any longer and they start to streak since, you know, the planet is rotating.

I noticed that the constellation Orion was also in the Western sky so I decided to see if I could get a picture of the Orion nebula.


This is as close as I could get and I can only leave the shutter open for four seconds. I know it's not fabulous, but the middle two stars are fuzzy because that's where the nebula is. It's just hard to see when there's so little light and we're so far away.

Thanks for reading. I'm really excited to take this up. It's something I've wanted to do for a long time. Unfortunately, it's going to cost more money to get anything better than this. We'll see how it goes.