Orion in Belmont's night sky

Just thought I'd share this with everyone.

We've always enjoyed astronomy and I love it when there's a new moon and we can get a good look at the night sky.

In Belmont, we're pretty close to the city (San Francisco) and get a lot of city light which tends to wash-out the night sky.

If we look south-south-west however it's much darker as we're looking towards the Santa Cruz mountain range.

When I got up early this morning I had to grab my camera and capture one of my favorite constellations-Orion.

This was taken today, October 9^th 2010 just after six in the morning.

I used our Nikon D70 with a shutter speed of 30" at f4.8 and ISO of 1600.