Taken through the trees in my yard, this is an image of the full moon and the planet Jupiter. Of course, the conjunction is simply a line-of-sight effect. The planet Jupiter is never closer than 628 million km and can be as far away as 928 million km. Our moon, on the other hand, is only about 384,000 km distant. Below is another image captured later (9:45 local time) when the pair had cleared the trees. Both pix taken with a Nikon D40 DX lens zoomed to 200mm. ISO 3200. Exposure 1/125.
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