By John Ashley | 2021-12-11
![Community photo entitled by Larisa Romanova on 12/08/2021 at Yuzhno-Morskoy (Nakhodka, Russia)](https://earthsky.org/upl/gravity_forms/6-d184048789a60d766a02a8e43117298b/2021/12/01.jpg)
On 12/08/2021 06:27 pm by Larisa Romanova| Yuzhno-Morskoy (Nakhodka, Russia)
Moon and planets: Venus, Saturn, Jupiter.
On December 8, 2021, from my small homeland - Yuzhno-Morskoy (Nakhodka, Primorsky Krai, Russia), above the Sea of Japan, I took (using mobile phone camera) this my photo of waxing crescent Moon with Venus, Saturn (the lowest brightness of all in this photo, on the right above near the Moon) and Jupiter; and my video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQmb64NUv6E of the ISS pass - little over 4 hours before docking of Soyuz MS-20. I took the video (the original of this my video lasts more than 6 minutes and has audio comments in it) with mobile phone camera in the evening (the sky was clear) when my son Filipp Romanov - amateur astronomer and discoverer of variable stars - was taking photos https://earthsky.org/earthsky-community-photos/entry/45615/ of the ISS pass (with his Canon EOS 60D camera).
I do not study the science of astronomy, like my son, but I always go with him to observe different astronomical phenomena, and I observed with him: solar and lunar eclipses, meteor showers, and I am glad that I too saw this interesting (with a bright flare) ISS pass on this date during the time when Soyuz MS-20 flew for docking.