Here is this month's first post. Yes, it is a moon photo, with a difference, in the technical sense. I finally put a tripod under my camera! The resulting photo seems to have turned out sharper. I took this shot with a adjusted ISO of 80 with an f-stop of 3.6 for a 125th of a second with my zoom and teleconverter combining to give me the equivalent of a 530mm telephoto lens. I'm kind of pleased with the picture, but I think it could have been better if the moon was higher in the sky than it was and if the atmosphere was a little less dense. I always find these shots a little hard to get, but fun and interesting. The Moon, it seems to me, is taken for granted. To the naked eye, it appears little more than a blotchy disk, so this wonder sits in the sky, ignored. Yet, with a little magnification, a whole new world comes into relief. The blotches become craters, mountains and vast basins. Not everyone is into this kind of thing, but I guess I'm just one of the nerds who is.