Jupiter Tracking With The Moon

[Lumen Miner (Mitchell)]

Sorry for the title, my teminology is lacking.

In other words, for East coast viewers, is Jupiter in close proximity to the Moon atm?

I just walked outside to a very clouded sky, there is a very brite object within wide view frame of the Moon. Is this jupiter? I can not tell through the clouds, I keep loosing the star/planet. I believe it is Jupiter, I thought I would check with you fine folk before getting excited, for later shots tonight/tomorrow morning that is.


The reason I ask, is my scope is outside (yes, the sky is cloudy, with a high probabilty of rain any time), will the Moon and Juptier separate (OMG i'm such a noob, I don't even know that.) later, not letting me get a wide frame shot of them together... Obviously not through the scope but with my camera mount on top?



I'm sure I will get a responce here, before I can conclude if it is Jupiter, through the clouds outside... Please let it be Jupiter.... I only have a 70mmx 900mm refractor so this is about as good as it gets for me.... LoL!!
I LOVE ASTrONOmY!!

[Rod66 (Rod)]

Well if it was last night, yes Jupiter is very close to the moon. If you look up at it with the naked eye, Jupiter is in about the 4'oclock position from the moon. We have nice cloudless skies up here in Brisbane at the moment.

Rod

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

Yep, it was Jupiter all right.
And just next to Jup, you can see it through your scope, is Neptune. Looking through your finderscope, put Jup and his moons to the right in the field of view, there will be a white star in the middle and on the left will be a tiny blue/green star, that's Neptune.

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

Mitchell, the correct terminology is a "conjunction".
Check out the left side bar, under "Upcoming Events" and it describes what you saw.

[Lumen Miner (Mitchell)]

Originally Posted by jjjnettie

Mitchell, the correct terminology is a "conjunction".
Check out the left side bar, under "Upcoming Events" and it describes what you saw.

Originally Posted by jjjnettie

Yep, it was Jupiter all right.
And just next to Jup, you can see it through your scope, is Neptune. Looking through your finderscope, put Jup and his moons to the right in the field of view, there will be a white star in the middle and on the left will be a tiny blue/green star, that's Neptune.

WoW!! That's cool! Thick cloud came rolling in about 12am here. I couldn't see any breaks in it right to the horizon, I packed it in.

Only got one shot of them together, shockingly bad though...