Moon (Part 2) - and mini Jupiter!

After saying a few days ago that I don't do follow up photos very often, here is another one. I don't think it's as successful as the one I took earlier (last month tookapic.com/photos/58932 ), lacking the drama of that image, but I wanted to get a full face moon as well, just to say I've done it, so here it is. (Actually I think it's already started to wane, so that's a little bit of a fail as well... but it's close enough for jazz, as we musicians say).

What was much more interesting and exciting to me are the extra images that I took. Last night Jupiter was extremely bright and clear, and I thought I'd have a shot at it. And lo and behold, although extremely small and fuzzy, it was actually quite recognisable with the famous stripes being visible, AND a couple of its moons.

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Hugely cropped of course, but still had me running around the room in the middle of the night screaming "I've just taken a picture of Jupiter".

Little things.

(Actually little things that are in fact extremely large things that over vast distances appear to be little things).

C

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