by Dave Mitsky
Here's a shot of Jupiter and the Moon that I took from my front yard at 4:50 a.m. EDT on 2010/7/4 using a tripod-mounted Canon EOS Digital Rebel DSLR camera and a Canon 80-200mm EF-S zoom lens. Jupiter (magnitude -2.5) and the Moon (magnitude -11.9) were approximately 8 degrees apart at the time.