This is the best photograph I caught today – at the time of  the closest proximity of Jupiter and Saturn in our sky since March 4, 1226.

The camera was at 60 times magnification, so they are really close together. If the moon were there, it would be five times bigger than the distance between the two planets.

Since I can’t add a “banana for scale” in this picture, I thought I’d show the view in daylight, with the red frame indicating the approximate view above.

Next time they’ll be this close will be in 2080. My grandson will be 61 years old then.