The Hunter!

The College celebrated its patron's feast day, St Paul, this evening with a Mass together with the prefect of the Propaganda Fidei, Cardinal Ivan Dias, followed by a dinner get-together.

It was after all that, when the celebration was over that I decided to see if I could take a shot of the night sky where Orion was residing as it made its way westward. I grab a Nikon DSLR camera (D80) and began takings several shots in the dark, playing around with the shutter speed and the aperture. I was trying to see which gave a better foucs and resolution to the picture and in the end I went for shutter speed.

After several tries in the cold outside the balcony that looked westward where Orion was at this time, I managed to snag a good one, as good as it can be, and labelled the important parts of the constellation and also a planet...

This is a small consolation from not being able to use to scope. It was still very cold outside to do any observing. :-P