Cozy Pair On A Not-So-Cozy Night

The First United Methodist Church at the corner of 8th Avenue and 12th Street in Marion, Iowa provided the foreground setting as the -2.58 magnitude planet Jupiter and a waxing half moon shone over it after 5:30 PM CST on Monday, January 21, 2013. The celestial bodies were in close conjunction, less than a degree apart. This image looks ESE from 8th Avenue. Weather conditions at the time were not kind to me at all with a -15 F wind chill factor to contend with. The top image is a 1/3-second exposure at f/4, 800 ISO and 24mm focal length, the bottom is a 1/13-second exposure at f/13, 800 ISO and 18mm focal length. The next conjunction of Jupiter and the moon will not occur until 2026.