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Whilst out observing, albeit briefly due to cloud cover, I snapped a dozen or so photos of the moon with my D40 held up to the telescope. This is just about as ghetto as you can get to still have a result, but… I think I did a fairly decent job with my first moon photo, haha.

The enhancing is just running it through Gimp’s USM, as the camera was set to soft contrast, etc.

The comet was pretty awesome. As soon as I found it I ran into the house and screamed “COMET!!” Well, really, it wasn’t so much finding it that was the problem, but the constant cloud cover flowing through the view.