Moon over Oregon. Credit: Greg Lyons

Here is an image taken by one of our readers, Greg Lyons, of the moon as seen presumably in his back yard.

This is obviously a very good image, guess what? He took this with a little Kodak C875 camera! This proves you can take some pretty remarkable images of the night sky with affordable equipment you may already own. He used the manual mode in the camera and a tripod.

Greg has sent me a few photos,  in this one he caught the planetary lineup of Venus, Mars, Saturn and of course the moon.

I need to find my little tripod! He gave me some of the settings he used and I want to try them out with my little Cannon 520.

I really-really like this image and made it into various sized wallpapers and it looks great on my screen. I did not modify the image at all, other than changing the size to reduce the file size.

Thank you very much Greg for all the great pictures. Hopefully this will inspire more to get out there and give it a try, I’m gonna – right after I get done dodging the thunderstorms I’m getting this afternoon.

Here’s some wallpaper sized versions: