More astronomy stuff

Back out again last night although not for quite as long since it was soooo cold. I've worked out why it's so bad though - the telescope drops in temperature as the temperature outside drops which means that everytime I touch it I get direct contact with a freezing object...
Anyway, I checked out the moon again last night and got a really good picture with minimal blurring. As I understand it, this is pretty much the best time to photograph the moon since it's not quite full yet. When it gets full there are no shadows and the craters are harder to make out.

After this I tracked down the Pleiades Star Cluster which was pretty amazing. Its basically just loads of stars really close to each other. As was pointed out to me, in my picture the stars almost form a heart shape which is nice :-)

After that I had a go at tracking down the Andromeda galaxy and even though I'm sure I was lined up pretty exactly, I couldn't really see anything. Maybe a slight blur but nothing definite. With such a deep space object theres a good chance that light pollution was a major factor so I'll be giving that one another go in the future.