November 16, 2018
The cosmos is full of spectacular things: ringed planets, exploding suns, rivers of stars across the night.
The Hill, The Moon, and Saturn
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APOD published November 16, 2018. Credit: Tamas Ladanyi. A publication-date match, not a photo taken on your date. Independent of NASA.
Last Sunday when the Moon was young its sunlit crescent hung low near the western horizon at sunset. With strong earthshine it was joined by Saturn shining in the early evening sky for a beautiful conjunction visible to skygazers around our fair planet. On that clear evening on a hill near Veszprem, Hungary mother, daughter, bright planet, and young Moon are framed in this quiet night skyscape taken with a telephoto lens. Of course the Moon ages too quickly for some, and by tonight the sunlit part has reached its first quarter phase. This weekend skygazers spending quality time under Moon and stars might expect to see the annual rain of comet dust otherwise known as the Leonid meteor shower. How to: Photograph the Leonid Meteor Shower
Image credit: Tamas Ladanyi