Have you seen Jupiter tonight?

[cakeorwine]

Lovely view. Look at the moon and at about 7pm from it, you will see a bright light - and apparently that's Jupiter.

11 times the size of Earth and about 558 million miles away!!

There’s a great app you can use to identify stars and planets in the night sky. It’s called SkyView Lite. You just open the app up and it geolocates you, you then hold the camera up to the sky and it tells you what you are looking at. It’ll even do it on a cloudy night as its working off your GPS coordinates rather than what you are actually seeing!

Oh good - something like that was one of the first apps DH got when he first had an iPhone, I didn't know what it was called.
Of course it's cloudy tonight.

" Realistically it is unlikely that we can see objects millions of miles away"

If only light travelled through space at light speed.

Takes about 30 minutes to travel.

Saw it last night about 9pm and told the kids. They didn't believe me, I feel vindicated now!!

@cakeorwine

NC because too outing.

I even took a very cool photo with my iPhone. No special equipment. Just pointed at the sky and clicked.

I think the sun disproves that posters assertion quite neatly. Unless they believe the sun is nearer to earth than 93 million miles.

That is AMAZING.

Because we orbit the sun on a different frequency to Jupiter (and all the other planets in our solar system) there will be times when it's behind the sun or only visible close to dawn or dusk when the sun's light makes it hard to see. I know that you probably meant 'every night' currently, but just in case people thought you meant it's always visible.

WOW.

It's been visible for months. So was Saturn at one point although much fainter.

No photos of Jupiter yet as it moves across the scope before DSes can line up phones, wait for it to settle, focus, and shoot but here's one of the moon DS2 took a while ago