Full Moon Throught Telescope

TAKE a small point-and-shoot digital camera.

HOLD the camera very carefully

 in the eyepiece of a simple telescope.

VOILA!

 Photos of the moon!

This shot was taken on Labor Day Weekend in September 2009. The moon rose clear on a warm late summer night. We pulled the telescope (which was a present to Peter one Christmas long ago) out onto the terrace. When the moon rose over Lake Huron to the east, many of us at Cedar Bluff got out our cameras and snapped photos of the gleaming orb. Those are magic nights. Family, friends, fall -- and the full moon.

More Full Moon blog posts:

Windmills in Moonlight
Full Moon Over Michigan's Thumb