Good evening, fellow stargazers!
Tonight here in my corner of South Carolina we were blessed to have clear evening skies for tonight's viewing of the second meeting of our lovely Moon and the planet Jupiter for the month of October.
The first meeting took place on Sunday the 1st of this month when the Moon appeared in the evening sky next to Jupiter -- the largest planet in our Solar System. To see my photos from that evening's conjunction of these heavenly bodies, please check them out HERE.
This evening's conjunction of the Moon and Jupiter takes place during the October Full Moon, also known as the Full Hunters Moon here in North America.
These are the photos I took detailing the Jupiter (as well as its largest moons) and the Full Moon in the evening sky. These include a close-up of the moon's features taken at a lower light setting, a wide-shot of how the Moon and Jupiter appear, as well as two close-ups that detail the Moon and Jupiter with its moons easily visible in a line with my backyard tree in the foreground.
These will be the last night sky photographs for this month as I will be enjoying the rest of October with my yearly tradition of monster and horror films in the days leading up to Halloween. But we're not done with Jupiter yet as soon the planet will be its closest to our Earth as it nears it opposition -- the moment each year when Earth is between the Sun and Jupiter in our smaller orbit.
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