Moon, Venus, Regulus, (Mars?) and Jupiter aligned this AM.

[boxtko]

Took these picture around 6:30 this morning. I believe the first one is the moon, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Regulus.  (Please correct me if I am wrong. I wasn't 100% sure if that was Mars.)  I really overexposed when I captured  this image.   I slightly overexposed for the second picture (you can't see Regulus and what I believe to be Mars.) Conditions were very cloudy so I had to work fast. I did some post processing in Lightroom.  I'm pretty new at this. Might try again tomorrow  morning. (I believe Venus will be closer to the moon.)

[JamesF]

I agree with your labelling.  The Moon should indeed be closer tomorrow morning, and getting right amongst them the following day.

James

[JamesF]

Actually, looking at the morning of the 9th it might even be possible to pick up Mercury as well, so you'd have Venus, the Moon, Mars, Jupiter and Mercury all pretty much in a line

James

[boxtko]

Thanks for the confirmation. I appreciate it.

I really wanted to take a close up up of Jupiter a (1st time I actually have a DSLR and T-mount/adapter), but it was so cloudy I was just happy I could snap a picture using only the camera.  (The last time I took a picture of Jupiter, I just held a compact camera up to the telescope eyepiece with just so so results.)  A few months have passed so I'm itching to try out my new setup.