Late Saturday night (1 February 2025) while I was out walking Annie, I happened to look up and noticed the planet Venus next to a new crescent Moon. It’s hard seeing anything like this where I live because of the humidity and haziness of he surrounding air as well as the light pollution created by neighborhood street lights and the near-by Universal Studios Orlando theme park. Nevertheless I was thrilled to see it, and when I got back home I selected my Panasonic Lumix G9.2 and put the Olympus Zuiko 2.8/40-150 PRO zoom on the front with the 1.4 teleconverter, opened the zoom up to f/2.8, zoomed out to 150mm, or 225mm with the teleconverter, for an effective focal length of 450mm. And then I hand held the assembly to take the photo.

Not bad for an amateur to be sure. And another photo of the wonders of the skies above my head.