I saw my first lunar halo!!! And the fact that Jupiter was so close to the Moon tonight made it a very memorable moment
I tried a few shots with the film camera so wait a few weeks for any results. Didn't have a wide enough lens to capture the whole halo and lo and behold, the dig cam had died grrr
After waiting a bit for the dig cam to charge up, and watching with awe through the binos (what a site! they weren't that close, maybe almost half a degree methinks???, but close enough to make me go "wow!"), I had a brilliant idea. I jerry-rigged my binos to sit amazingly steady atop my camera tripod and aimed it at jupiter and the moon. Then I took my digi cam and aimed it as straight and steady as I could at one side of the binos. I managed to get a few shots and I would like to share one with you all just to demonstrate what can be done with limited equipment (so don't laugh
). This shot was taken at maximum zoom, at 400 ISO, f5.6, 1/400 seconds, time was 1:45am-ish (I think!! I didn't bother writing any details down and I'm having trouble remembering things now but it's roughly in that ball park). I also discovered that my bino's have severe chromatic aberration. Jupiter is the speck in the top right hand corner: