Glass Renagerie

I noticed the proximity of the Moon and Venus tonight and decided to take some shots. Actually, I’d already gotten the camera out to take some other shots and then noticed. I then decided to get the telescope out and take some pictures through it, but the field of view was too narrow to get both the Moon and Venus in the same shot. So the above picture is without the telescope. I chose it as one that shows Venus as a crescent. The two below, of each separately — where you can even more clearly see that Venus is also a crescent — were taken through the telescope. The one of the Moon was taken with the camera attached to the telescope, with the telescope serving as a fixed focal length lens for the camera (I forget, but something in the 800-1200 mm range). The shot of Venus, on the other hand, is handheld with a 50mm prime lens held up to a 32mm (or something similar) eye piece on the telescope. Tricky, and not the best quality, but the only way I have of getting more zoom.