Another try at the moon and Jupiter

@Soph03 But it is Jupiter.

Saturday, Nov. 25: Bright moon outshines Uranus (all night) https://www.space.com/16149-night-sky.html
a small bright moon is shown in a black sky underneath the legs of a lamb, uranus and jupiter are nearby.

The moon's final visit with the evening planets this month will occur on Saturday night, November 25 when the very bright, 98%-illuminated moon will shine several finger-widths to the upper right (or 4 degrees to the celestial west) of Uranus. (Image credit: Chris Vaughan/Starry Night)
The moon's final visit with the evening planets this month will occur on Saturday night, November 25 when the very bright, 98%-illuminated moon will shine several finger-widths to the upper right (or 4 degrees to the celestial west) of Uranus.

While magnitude 5.6 Uranus can be seen easily in binoculars, especially now that it is recently past opposition, tonight's moonlight will overwhelm the planet. Instead, note that Uranus is positioned a little closer to the Pleiades star cluster and a little farther from Jupiter, and seek out the ice giant planet when the moon has left the scene a few nights later.



https://www.space.com/moon-jupiter-nov-2023?

The 93%-full waxing gibbous moon and a bright Jupiter will make a close approach in the night sky tonight.

The moon will meet up with Jupiter tonight in a gorgeous post-Thanksgiving meet up.

The moon will be almost fully illuminated during the meeting, with the Full Beaver Moon rising just two nights later on Monday, Nov. 27. From New York City, the rendezvous between the moon and Jupiter will be visible soon after they rise in the east at around 3:40 p.m. EST (2040 GMT), according to In the Sky. The 12-day-old moon will be under 5 degrees north of Jupiter, with both celestial objects located in the constellation of Pisces, the Fishes.

During the close encounter, both objects will be quite bright and unmistakable in the night sky. The moon will have a magnitude of -11.7, while the solar system's largest planet, Jupiter, will be at magnitude -2.8, with the minus prefix indicating particularly bright objects over Earth.

The celestial bodies will disappear from view in the west at around 5 a.m. EST (1000 GMT) on Saturday, Nov. 25.

@samueltyler2 ok. Lots of stars in our sky tonight so I'm not sure which one is jupiter. Maybe it's different in your sky

@Soph03 planets, unlike stars, dont twinkle.

@samueltyler2 none of the stars really twinkled but I assume it was there

@Soph03 that is odd, maybe things are different at your location, do you know the jingle twinkle, twinkle, little star, how I wonder....? "For most people, the concept of a twinkling star is quite romantic, and conjures up memories of one of the most famous nursery rhymes of all time."

Thanks for the reason to look this up. Now I learned something new, the scientific explanation for the difference.

https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/space-science/why-do-stars-twinkle (accessed11/26/2023):

"If you look up at the stars on a dark night, you might notice that these bright points of light appear to twinkle. In actual fact, stars do not actually twinkle: they just appear to do so from our perspective on Earth.

Our atmosphere reaches about 10,000km up from the surface of the Earth, and within the atmosphere air gets blown around, while hot air rises and mixes with cooler air.

Stars appear to twinkle because as light from those stars passes through our atmosphere, it is bent and distorted by varying temperatures and densities of air.

There is even a scientific term for stars' twinkling, and that's 'atmospheric scintillation'. This is the astronomical term for those quick changes in the apparent brightness of a star (more on this in our guide to stellar magnitude) or even the colour of a star produced by the aforementioned atmospheric irregularities.

Similar effects are seen in the way our view of an object might be distorted by heat rising from a hot radiator or roaring fire, for example.

It is possible to capture these effects of atmospheric distortion in an image, by photographing the changing colours of a twinkling star. For more basic stellar astrophotography, read our guide on how to photograph the stars."