Moon studies with data; Taken tonight, August 30, 2020.

[Jeebo]

1. There's a planet perhaps 15 moon diameters to the right of the moon.

This is at 11 p.m. CDT. It has been there for the past several nights, and I have been wondering which planet it is. It's not bright enough to be Venus or Jupiter, and it doesn't have that reddish tinge that Mars always has. I am guessing it's Saturn. I'm not losing sleep over it wondering, but I would like to know. If you're enough of an amateur backyard astronomer to be out taking pictures at different shutter speeds of the moon, Peggy, I'm guessing you probably know. Is it Saturn? When I was a kid my parents bought me a telescope one Christmas and I got to be a little bit of a backyard astronomer and was able to pick out the planets, but now, 60 years later, I'm not so sure. Also my eyesight is not as good as it was then.

-- Ron