Tonight, at the Texas Astronomical Society's Earth Hour star party, I had the opportunity to photograph the beautiful crescent moon through a telescope. But alas, my camera was nowhere to be found, no matter how much I dug around in my purse. Much later, on the way home, I realized that it had been sitting on the front seat of my car the whole time. I'd taken it out of my purse as I approached the star party to take this outstanding photo.
Clearly, it is a much better shot than the detailed one that I could have had of the moon's sidelit craters. Don't worry though; I was at least able to take a high-quality night shot with my phone of a star party volunteer showing cool live footage of the Orion Nebula on a projection screen. :P
Let me just say that despite the photographic tragedy, I had a really great time tonight. The TAS members there were all super nice and eager to share their wealths of knowledge. One professional astronomer even gave me a long, fascinating lesson on the use of spectroscopy to detect which chemical elements are present in an object in space.. but I won't pretend that I understand it well enough to explain it here. ;)
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