Moonlight

Cherie took a photo of the moon, and put it on her blog here Cherie's Place | Moonlight. As I was lookin g at it, I looked out of the window and saw the moon in a similar position, rising behind clouds, so I went outside and took a picture of it. Like Cherie, I didn't have a tripod, so I tried to steady the camera by holding it against a gutter downpipe, and here is the result.

Moon, Jupiter, Venus

Over the last few days the Moon, Ju[piter and Venus have been appearing in the sky together. Problem is, the sky has been cloudy most of the time, so this is about the best picture I could get of them. After I took this picture my camera battery went flat, and by the time I had changed it I couldn't even see the moon through the clouds.