| Our first clear evening suitable for getting pictures of the planet scene since the eclipse last Monday happened to coincide with a close gathering of Jupiter, Uranus, and Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks in deep twilight. Jupiter is magnitude -2.05, Uranus is magnitude +5.83, while the comet is somewhere between +5.0 and +4.1, depending on what source you use. At 230mm, we can see the Moons of Jupiter; note that its brightest satellite, Ganymede, is brighter than Uranus and most of the stars in the picture, being at a magnitude of +4.60. |