Jupiter Next to Our Moon Tonight (PHOTOS)

[Hissyspit]

As seen in rural North Carolina.





It's just iPhone photos, but the top one has some foreground for sense of scale.

[DogPawsBiscuitsNGrav]

1. Very cool pics, even with the Iphone.

[loudsue]

2. I'm in rural NC, too, Hissyspit, and my husband & I just went out on our deck

to see what you were seeing. So beautiful! Thanks for the heads up!

[gateley]

3. Wow!

[Behind the Aegis]

4. What is the bright blip off to the side?

I went out a few minutes ago and saw it. I thought it was another planet, then I saw it "twinkle." I then thought it was a plane because it appeared to move slowly, but it was moving too slowly. But, it very bright not to be "put out" by the moon's light. Anyone know what star that is?

[DreamGypsy]

5. Here are a couple of my photos...

...I initially wrote 'shots' instead of 'photos', then I realized I would probably be alerted and end up int gundgeon. Whew!

As I related in a reply to Omaha Steve's thread on the conjunction (http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=2234638), I was able to get a predusk view of the Moon and Jupiter at around 5:00 PST. As the air cooled, the fog and cloud cover increase, but I took these photos at around 5:30 and 6:00 pm respectively, still 2 hours before closest approach. The second photo has the nice addition of a haloed moon; the blue smudge is some lens artifact, and the elongated Jupiter is a camera jingle. Fifteen minutes after taking these the fog hid Jupiter completely.

[Hissyspit]

11. Yeah, I had that same blue spot, too.

[hfojvt]

6. it's about that time

Wait, where is Mars?

[littlemissmartypants]

7. Which direction?

N, S, E or W?

[Hissyspit]

10. NW

[samsingh]

8. nice

[Fearless]

9. It was beautiful here tonight

Snowed earlier and cleared up around dusk. Jupiter was clear and bright.

[Fumesucker]

12. Here's mine from outside Atlanta

[DreamGypsy]

13. Very nice

What kind of scope do you have?

[Fumesucker]

14. Thanks, I have a 6" F5 Newtonian on a German equatorial mount

But that shot was hand held with just my Lumix point and shoot camera like this one.