Been out in the garden with telescope tonight....
Have had great fun hunting down some satr clusters and nebulae around the Gemini/Taurs/Auriga area
Here's a few pics I squeezed in over the course of the session.
No fancy gear for the pics, just a mid-range digital cam, on a tripod.
Moon (illuminated part deliberately overexposed to show Earthshine on the dark half) and Mars conjunction.
http://i34.tinypic.com/2q8smis.jpg
Wider shot of Moon and Mars - With the Gemini twins, Castor and Pollux above.
http://i34.tinypic.com/r29fzr.jpg
Hyades star cluster in Taurus - including the enormous Red Giant star Aldebaran, and double-star Theta Tauri
http://i37.tinypic.com/11bl10l.jpg
Pleiades star cluster (the Seven Sisters) in Taurus
http://i36.tinypic.com/311uptc.jpg
Widefield of the constellation 'Orion'
http://i38.tinypic.com/ndsnrm.jpg
The stargazing season (Autumn through winter, into spring) has finally begun 'in-proper' when the whole of the mighty hunter is up in the sky before 4am