Justfolk's photos with the keyword: 21N5-914-1c

Jupiter showing off three of his moons while our s…

03 Nov 2021 1 61
My idea of astronomy is to see what I can see with what I have. I have no telescope, so this was just my camera. And I hate digging out my tripods so I almost never use them. I just hold the camera hard against some (nearly) solid object and do what I can. This was jammed against one of the posts on our back deck. But jamming against posts ain't, uhh, "best practice." So this shot of Jupiter a couple of hours ago was shakier than it appears here. (I cloned out some shake on two of the moons.) I am starting to get an idea of how much the moons of Jupiter vary from night to night. It is good education.