Clear skies slightly spoiled by the Moon!

As the sun set last night the sky was completely clear and dark: conditions seemed ideal for a few more images of the M42 nebula, asteroid Vesta and the nova in Cassiopeia. In the event a friend phoned as I was grabbing a shot of the ISS and, by the time I was outside once more, the near-full Moon had risen. Its glare made long exposures nearly pointless, but I took a few anyway!