Hi everyone!

I finally got a chance to take out my telescope for the first time since I've received it..which was 3 weeks ago! Unfortunately, the weather hasn't been all that great, so tonight was my chance. It was a beautiful day with 60 degrees and cloudless skies. At night, it turned to 40 degrees with cloudless skies. So of course, I decided to get out into my backyard and just randomly look around, since I am not 100% familiar with the use of telescopes. I camped out in my backyard at 11pm (April 9th), to be exact I took my telescope out on the deck by the pool to be up higher.

And then I decided to move the telescope down on the ground, cause it will be much more stable than the deck. I rotated my telescope so I could see the moon! Of course it was a full moon, so I couldn't really stare at the moon through the eyepiece for too long, cause it would blind me (I'll have to get those filters)!! And then I decided, that even though my digital camera isn't so great, I'll attempt to take a picture of the Moon! I took a few, but only one was a decent one! I didn't use the piggy mount for my camera, I don't have any mounts to hold the camera to take the picture, I was holding my Nikon CoolPix 4100 with my hand, right up in the eyepiece. And actually came out with a decent picture :) Don't even ask how I did this, but somehow it happened

The Moon

April 9th, 2009. AstroMaster 130EQ-MD w/ Nikon CoolPix 4100

Then I spent until 2am talking to my brother on the phone, asking what I should do and where I should move it. Then had some troubles aligning it and actually finding what I wanted to. The moon was TOO bright, and lit up a lot of the sky. Plus it was very light polluted already, so it was hard to see! But either way, Im glad I got one decent moon picture, since it was the biggest thing in the sky! I packed up by 2am, and went back inside. So this is my first astronomy night with my own telescope:)))

EvaCZE