Happy Tuesday, everyone! Just thought I'd share these images of Jupiter, Saturn and the Big Dipper that I took with my Google Pixel 4A smartphone last week.
Ever since the COVID-19 pandemic began about 18 months ago, I've been taking evening walks around my street in Pomona, California almost every other day. Two of the cool things that I enjoyed looking at during my 1-plus-hour walk were Jupiter and Saturn as these two gas giants were visible in the night sky for much of 2020...until they dipped below the horizon last December.
I even took photos of Jupiter and Saturn (using my Nikon D3300 DSLR camera) a little over a year ago.
It wasn't until recent weeks that Jupiter and Saturn were visible in the evening sky above Southern California once more—and I celebrated their return by taking these photos with my smartphone.
And last Friday, I decided to take pictures of the Big Dipper...which I just found out isn't a constellation itself (it's part of the constellation Ursa Major), but a group of stars known as an asterism. Pretty interesting.
I should go to areas with much darker skies since my Pixel 4A does such an awesome job taking photos in its Night Sight mode. Of course, I also intend on shooting nocturnal images with the Nikon D3300 when I have the chance. I didn't buy a new tripod for it using the stimulus money provided by President Biden and the Democrats earlier this year for nothing!
Carry on.
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