Jupiter is firmly entrenched in central Taurus, now close to the large open cluster
NGC 1746. It has been retrograding for almost a month, heading towards its December
7 opposition. This morning it shines at magnitude -2.76 and is 46.9" in diameter.
If I had just framed the picture a little better, we could have included the Pleiades
and all of M38 in the image as well, racking up eight open clusters easily visible in the
same view LOL.
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