I am adding a few pictures of the last full moon of 2020. These pictures were taken from one of the parks where I live. The app on my phone said the moon rose today at 3:57 p.m., but I still had to wait about an hour to get these pictures. Our weather is expected to contain sleet, freezing rain, and rain tomorrow, so this evening was probably the best time to photograph the moon.
On the evening of the winter solstice, my wife and I took our lawn chairs to a rural part of the county where we live. A few months prior, we had found a hill and an open field that offered a great view of the sunset.
Initially, I got a few shots of the sunset before we discovered Saturn and Jupiter in the southwestern sky. At 250 mm, the telephoto lens for my camera is not very strong. Even so, I got a few shots of Jupiter's moons. You may need to enlarge the picture, using Ctrl and the plus key, for a closer look.
We left once it started to get cold. Several other families stopped their cars to get a look at the same location as we were packing everything into the car.
