Here is a mosaic of the first quarter moon taken this last Wednesday, March 5th. The individual images were collected with a Nikon D90 threaded to the Meade 12″ SCT. The separate images were then assembled using GIMP, an open-source image manipulation program.
![The first quarter moon shown in its correct orientation](http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3631/3330337440_b25364dcd8.jpg?v=0)