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The dragon that ate the moon (partial lunar eclipse)

-"What will be, if I ate the moon from the sky?"-the young dragon asked.-"It looks so delightful!"
Dragon that ate the moon, AlviaAlcedo on deviantArt

I'm sure there's ancient mythology explaining eclipses as dragons eating the moon...



This time round, I dug out a cheap phone tripod adapter and an actual tripod to use it with. Getting the monocular lined up is still tricky, not to mention trying to focus it, but I think it worked











Greatest eclipse!



There was another faint point near the moon tonight - only the brightest stars and objects are visible from my flat thanks to a street lamp outside. Fortunately Home Planet has an artificial horizon!



Again decoding the symbols, ♃ is Jupiter off to the side and ♇ is Pluto (which is far too faint to be visible), so it must be ♄ which is the symbol for Saturn.