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Community photo entitled  by Tom Jones on 10/29/2023 at Rochester, NY  (USA)

On 10/29/2023 11:00 pm by Tom Jones| Rochester, NY (USA)

Thanks to EarthSky.org, I was ready for the full (Hunter) Moon on the evening of Oct 28 and for brilliant Jupiter to cozy up to her. But then, what appears but a nice lunar halo. It was hard to get the halo, Jupiter, and the Moon in proper exposure (partly because I don't own a tripod!). So, in this image I favored the pretty halo and the Moon. But to add interest, I pasted inset images of Jupiter from the night of 27 and 28 Oct. Note that 4 Jovian moons are visible for the first night and 2 (maybe 3?) for the second night. I presume that the differing orbital periods of satellites at different orbital radii explains how the view changes from night to night. Cool! Maybe a REAL astronomy can expand on this matter?

Tom Jones

Sony RX10/4

Adjusted saturation and exposure the halo image to bring out the colors