Planet Scenes May 2025

	May 25:  Venus & Saturn Venus, Saturn, and Neptune's location are seen in eastern and central Pisces in this image from a clear Sunday morning on Memorial Day weekend.
	May 24:  Jupiter and Capella Jupiter is still bright enough to be easily seen in twilight, here making a nice pairing with Capella in Auriga to its upper right.
			May 23:  Jupiter, Mars and Vesta After many days of rain and clouds, we enjoyed a glorious evening and took advantage by checking in on Jupiter and Mars, as well as the brightest asteroid, Vesta.  This evening, Jupiter was magnitude -1.94, Mars was +1.21, and Vesta was +6.09.  Using the formula for finding the brightness ratio of two stars of given magnitudes, we see that Jupiter is 18.2 times brighter than Mars, whereas Mars is 89.5 times brighter than Vesta.
	May 18:  Venus and Saturn from Florida Venus and Saturn are gaining in prominence in the dawn sky, but especially so if we travel south as we did in this instance.  From the beach south of St. Augustine we can see the two planets in bright twilight but unfortunately also enmeshed in a mostly cloudy sky.
	May 11:  Moonrise over Lake George I visited my lady friend Laura in upstate New York and while there took time out to get some pictures of the almost full Moon rising over Lake George from one of the public access parks in Bolton Landing.
	May 8:  Jupiter from Guam My good friend Action Jackson was on travel to the Pacific and got this beautiful shot of twilight from a beach in Guam that also included the faint speck of Jupiter near the top of the image.
	May 6:  Jupiter in the Evening Jupiter is sinking into the twilight as May progresses.  Here we see it in eastern Taurus, still almost directly above Aldebaran, and slowly encroaching on the ecliptic.
	May 5:  Sun with Massive Sunspot Group Our cloudy weather broke just in time for me to attempt a shot of the huge sunspot group 4079 while it was near the middle of the solar disk.
		May 4:  Mars in the Beehive and Quiescent T CrB We had a nice view of Mars in the midst of the Beehive cluster, otherwise known as M 44 in Cancer, despite the bright first quarter Moon nearby.  Also, we have yet another look at the northern crown, Corona Borealis, to check in on the Blaze Star, known as T Coronae Borealis.  It barely registered a few faintly illuminated pixels, so there is clearly still no eruption.

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