August 2024
Featuring A close conjunction of Jupiter and Mars, Lenticular galaxy NGC 7457, and barred spiral galaxy NGC 7640. 17th August - Jupiter and Mars conjunct. Two fairly large sunspots, plus a few minor ones: You can click/tap the image to go to a better resolution version, or just look at the interesting bits. 14th and 15th August - Jupiter and Mars conjunct. Back on the 30th of July I posted a wide angle shot of Jupiter and Mars (with and over exposed Moon in the frame). At that time, Jupiter was East of Aldebaran, and Mars was sitting almost midway between Aldebaran and the Pleiades. Both planets have been moving East through the constellations, but Mars far faster than Jupiter. On the 14th and 15th of August, the two planets were quite close. The cloud forecast for the night of 13th/14th was not great - so I was tucked up in bed. Happened to be awake at 02:00, noticed it was clear, and just got this image fro...