We weren’t far enough south to see the full ring of fire, but in Colorado we saw a pretty cool partial eclipse. Starting from the first image is at 9:45 AM MDT and the last in the sequence is at maximum at 10:36 AM MDT.
I was up at 3:45 AM to set up the telescope and get some photos of the Blood Moon eclipse. The next total lunar eclipse will be Mar 14, 2025.
On Friday, June 24, 2022 the planets were arranged in the night sky in order of their distance from the sun. From Mercury just below the horizon (from our location), to Venus, the Moon (standing in for Earth), Mars, Jupiter, and finally Saturn in a southeasterly arc.
Evan and I woke up early to enjoy the show on a relatively warm summer morning. Our reflector telescope isn’t quite as powerful as we had hoped when we bought it but we still could see Jupiter and its moons, the rings of Saturn (better than the image shows), and details of the surface of the moon.
Don’t forget to plan ahead:
