I walked out to get the laundry tonight, looked up and saw the moon and Jupiter practically next to each other. I took a quick shot with the phone, then went back in to get a better camera. (Unfortunately, the best camera I have is in the shop right now.) The phone picture is at upper left, the camera picture at lower right.
Nothing makes you appreciate how bright the moon really is like trying to avoid overexposing it without making the second brightest planet disappear.
Wasn’t that purdy? I didn’t know it was going to happen and was taken by surprise when I took the trash out. I guess that the southern hemisphere was treated to not only to a conjunction but a full-on occlusion of Jupiter. That would have been fun to see.
Same here – I’d seen something about the occlusion being visible from South America, then completely forgot about it until I walked out the door that evening.