Viewing at twilight this morning.

[maw lod qan]

With the moon rapidly growing smaller it's getting closer to twilight before it climbs high enough for observing.

This morning was excellent viewing. The air still and very dry for this time of the year. The terminator lay just off Plato and ran down splitting the Moon to Tycho.

Seeing how good the viewing was, I turned to Jupiter.

Though not the clearest I've seen it, the banding stood out distinctly.

Using a 23mm lens I took a few images using eyepiece projection. At ISO 800 I was able to capture the banding and faintly, three of the four large moons lined up to one side.

Normally, it's either the bands and no moons or the moon with a burnt out Jupiter.

This time of the morning, your window of opportunity disappears quick.

[Pete Presland]

I had a very brief "binocular" view this morning, a stunning sight at the moment. Hopefully going to be joined be Comet Swan later this month.