The Moon and Venus: amazing conjunction

Well-worth crawling out of bed at 5.00am this morning: Venus and the Moon were close together in the dawn sky - close enough, in fact, to capture them both within the field of view of a 300mm lens. Also still a splendid sight is Mars on the other side of the sky, at its closest and largest for a long time. While the skies were so clear, I thought I'd grab a couple of images of Taurus and the Pleiades and of everyone's favourite constellation, Orion. (Below and left of 'him' is the brightest star in the northern sky, Sirius.)