Moon and Pleiades on 27 April 2009

This came to me as surprise !!!

On 27th Evening I was taking a walk in park with my wife, when we spotted thin Lunar Crescent. It was quite thin than normally we saw after new moon. So we rushed back home to pick up camera.

I shot few photos and didn't do anything even not dowloaded to pc !!!

After few days I saw Moon and Pleiades occultation photo in My Friend Mandar Potdar's Orkut Album !!!

I downloaded photos and found M45 (Pleiades) Faintly visible in photos. It was quite bright sky by that time as Day is quite big here (in US) now.

Here are the pics ... Click photo to see big version.
Canon XTi , ISO 100, Canon 70-200mm L @ 200mm - F/4 : Expo - 2 sec


Canon XTi , ISO 100, Canon 70-200mm L @ 126mm - F/4: Expo - 2 sec