Luna & Venus (2-27-2009)

The Moon and Venus were very close in the sky tonight. It was a great photo opportunity. If you click on the images, you can see Venus as a crescent like the moon. That is because its orbit around the sun is inside of the earth's. All of these were taken with the Canon XTi and a Nikon 300mm f/4 lens. The last image is six separate images stacked in Registax 5 (which worked on Venus but not so well on the Moon). It was taken at around 6 pm. The others were taken between 6 and 7.