Jupiter occulted

A tight view of the Moon's bright, cratered edge curving across the frame, with one large crater showing bright rays. Just below the dark edge of the Moon, a small pale striped sphere — Jupiter — sits in the black sky, nearly touching the limb.

Katelyn Beecroft from London, Ontario, Canada

On the morning of Oct. 6, 2026, the waning crescent Moon — then about 20 percent lit — occulted Jupiter as seen from much of eastern North America. This imager, tracking by hand with an 8-inch Dobsonian reflector, stacked the sharpest frames from video shot with a ZWO ASI224MC planetary camera.