Astronomy Adventure - A Crescent Moon

The weather has really been atrocious since the beginning of the year with hardly any clear nights for viewing. A couple of nights, I brought out the telescope and let it cool down and it had clouded over completely in that half hour. There was at least one good night earlier this month with a lovely view of a crescent moon and Venus to its upper left. Not in the picture but also visible was Mars above and to the left of Venus.

The large circular area just north of the middle of the picture is the Mare Crisium.