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LOOK UP TONIGHT! 🌙✨
December 8, 2025
The Moon Meets Jupiter

Tonight and tomorrow night offer a spectacular celestial show as the waxing gibbous Moon and Jupiter, the solar system's largest planet, create a stunning close conjunction in the eastern sky. These two brilliant objects appear just 3°36' apart, roughly the width of three fingers held at arm's length, making them impossible to miss even from light-polluted cities.​

When and where to watch
Look toward the eastern horizon shortly after sunset to catch the Moon and Jupiter rising together. The 93%-illuminated Moon shines brilliantly alongside Jupiter (magnitude -2.6), which appears as a steady, dazzling "star" to the Moon's right. As the night progresses, both objects climb higher across the sky, reaching their peak around midnight in the constellation Gemini.​

A cosmic perspective
With Venus currently hidden in the Sun's glare, Jupiter dominates as the brightest starlike object in December's night sky. Though they appear close from our viewpoint on Earth, the Moon and Jupiter are actually separated by hundreds of millions of miles in space, a beautiful reminder of how perspective shapes what we see in the cosmos.​

No telescope needed for this breathtaking pairing, just step outside, look up, and enjoy one of December's finest sky shows!

11/30/2025

Mother Nature's "butterball"! This icon of U.S. Thanksgiving was "pardoned".

HAPPY THANKSGIVING to all my digital friends in the U.S. May you enjoy special times with family and friends during this very special time of the year!

How did the Wild Turkey become associated Thanksgiving in the U.S? Beyond the story of the Pilgrims, the Wild Turkey was significant as a food source for many pioneers. They were a lot tastier than eating possums, muskrats and beaver.

A Wild Turkey can weight up to 30 lb. and feed more than a family. Yet, you would not believe how fast they can run and jump into flight!

The turkey in the photo is a VERY LARGE Eastern Wild Turkey. You can see it's an Eastern by the darker brown in the tail, and brown around the edge of the tail.

You can tell the mood of a Wild Tom Turkey by the color of it's head. If it is mostly white and blue, they are "relaxed". When it changes to bright red, they are angry and aggressive. This one was turning bright red when he spotted the Photog!

Make the time to enlarge and take a closer look at the iridescent beauty on those body feathers! Despite the naked head, turkeys are beautiful as well as tasty.

Even if you are not eating turkey this Thanksgiving, make the time to share stories and special moments with those gathered around you. For those outside the U.S. it is always great to share time and stories when you "eat about it".

Photog Nerd Data:
Canon 5DmkIII, 100 - 400 , f7.1, 1/1000, 0 EV, ISO 2000

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Need a birdy conversation starter? Fun fact: you can discern a turkey’s s*x from its droppings—it's true. Male s**t is shaped like the letter J, while a female’s droppings are more spiral-shaped. And the bigger the p**p, the older the bird.

We've got more Wild Turkey facts where that came from—check out the link in comments to learn 9 more!

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