The sky last night was unexpectedly clear, so I grabbed the Olympus E-M1iii and Leica 9mm f/1.7 lens and set them up on a Vixen Polarie tracker.
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| Orion and Sirius right of center, Jupiter and Gemini to the left |
The planet Jupiter is currently the brightest "star" in the evening sky, more than three times brighter than Sirius (bottom center), which is the brightest actual star.
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| Two Dippers. |
The "LIttle Dipper" (left, above) and "Big Dipper" (right) are both asterisms associated with the constellations Ursa Minor and Ursa Major, respectively.
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| credit: SkySafariAstronomy.com |
There was some hope on the interweb for another display of Northern Lights last night, but I didn't see any hint of anything near midnight. Of course, my field of view in the back yard is very limited. The picture below shows the current sunspots that may cause geomagnetic storms. This image was taken with an AT72EDII refractor with a front-mounted Kendrick Astro Instruments solar filter.
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