Last week, we had a few nice nights with clear skies. On one of these nights, it happened to be also very close to the full moon. It’s always a spectacular sight. To the left of the Moon was another very bright spot, way too bright to be a star, it had to be a planet. So I ran to the basement to take out my telescope and try to identify the planet. I thought that I could try and take some pictures of that as well so I ran back inside to grab our digital camera.
The Moon is of course easier to photograph, for the planet, although I could see it pretty clearly, taking a decent snapshot with a handheld camera through the telescope’s viewfinder is a tad harder. Anyway, here’s the best I could take of Jupiter and it’s four Galilean moons: Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto.
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