A fine morning with Jupiter and Venus

Front yard astronomy.

Jupiter and Venus are those two bright dots in our morning sky.

Jupiter’s that dot in the center of the photo, high above the southwestern horizon. Forty minutes before Sunrise.
Canon XS on tripod, with 20mm zoom lens at f/4 and ISO-200 for five seconds.

Venus is that dot just above the telephone wire in the middle of the photo. Thirty-five minutes before Sunrise.
Canon XS on tripod with 20mm lens at f/4 and ISO-200 for one second.
Venus is much brighter than Jupiter, but doesn’t look like it here because the exposure for Jupiter was five times longer..

Fuzzy Jupiter with two bands via the 8-inch telescope. Cropped from larger photo.. Canon XS looking through the 8-inch dobsonian telescope, with a 2X barlow for 1/125 second at ISO-200. I saw more details and color though the eyepiece.

Longer exposure with three of Jupiter’s moons to the right of the planet.
(Cropped from larger photo and enhanced in Photoshop Elements. )
Canon XS looking through the 8-inch dobsonian telescope with 2X barlow for 1/80 second at ISO 200.

Previous photo with three moons labeled.
Callisto was to the left of Jupiter in this photo, much further away from Jupiter.
No, I didn’t see the moons through the telescope because the sky was so bright, but a great time to see the bands on Jupiter.

Crescent Venus through the 8-inch telescope (Cropped from larger photo)
Taken with Canon XS looking through 8-inch dobsionan telescope with 2X barlow lens for 1/320 second at ISO-200.
About 30 minutes after Sunrise.

Venus is near it’s maximum brightness for this morning apparition. It’s going to get a bit smaller, get farther from the Sun in our sky and it’s phase will increase from being a crescent over the next few weeks. https://www.universalworkshop.com/2023/09/17/sunlight-reflected-from-slim-lady/