Being unable to sleep last night, I was greeted in the early hours by seeing the Moon lurking in the Hyades, hiding behind Taurus’s head, presumably to protect itself by being clobbered by Orion the Hunter.
Here it is, taken with my Sony DSC-HX60 compact camera with a bit of GIMP magic to combine images of different exposures to avoid the Moon’s glare washing out the stars:
And here is the Moon’s hiding place in the Hyades:
Nice pictures Roger,. It will be a while before I can make an attempt on Orion, but the moon was just over the roof by 1:45 last night so I got a few snaps!