Just dreaming, I guess.
The moon is less of a hinderance than you might
think. I have shot 30 minute deep red filtered (Wratten #92, very
similar to a Lumicon H-Alpha filter) Tech Pan exposures through my Schmidt
camera with a six day old moon nearby in the same area of the sky. They
turned out great. In fact, some of them are in my book, Wide-Field
Astrophotography. See the image of IC 4628 on page 164.
Also, a thin crescent moon in the sky isn't as
bright as we suspect. If you are at a dark site and can see the Milky
Way, the moon isn't tearning up up that bad. And if you are using long
focal lengths, the effect of the moon is even further reduced.
But I also have another suggestion... instead of
avoiding the sky completely during "moon week", why not shift gears and make
the moon a target? Lunar photography is something that has been
seriously lacking in the amateur community for several decades now. When
I first started astronomy way too many decades ago, the moon was big
deal. To me, it still is. After all, it is the only other world in
the sky that we can see and photograph in very high detail with modest amateur
equipment. The variety of interesting sights and geology along the lunar
terminator is a whole different area of astrophotography that is a specialty
unto itself. I have been using a simple digital camera and a 27-year old
C-8 to take better lunar shots from my driveway than I ever accomplished with
film and bigger telescopes in the past.
If the sky is clear, there is photo opportunity
no matter what the phase of the moon.