This bright meeting will be a great target if you have a smartphone with a camera sensitive enough to record astronomical objects.<\/p>
Find out more about how to do this in our guides on how to photograph the night sky with your smartphone<\/a> and how to photograph the Moon with your smartphone<\/a>.<\/p> One key thing to check is whether your phone’s camera has a ‘Pro’ mode that enables you to adjust the exposure time, white balance, ISO setting etc., as this will enable you to play around with the settings to get the right shot.<\/p> A smartphone tripod<\/a> will also be handy here.<\/p> The Moon will have an illuminated phase of 16% and will appear 3.8\u00b0 from Jupiter as true darkness arrives.<\/p> The gap continues to close until just before they set at around 23:00 UT, when they will be just 2.8\u00b0 apart.<\/p> The next evening, 14 March, the Moon will have moved further east to sit between the dim planet Uranus and the Pleiades open cluster<\/a>, M45.<\/p> The Moon\u2019s phase will have increased to 26% on this date, slim enough to allow the stars of the Pleiades to be easily seen above and left of the Moon\u2019s position as seen from the UK.\u00a0<\/p> Again, if you had success taking a photo of the Moon and Jupiter together using a smartphone, have a go to see whether you can record the Moon and the Pleiades together.<\/p> With a wide enough view, you should also be able to capture mag. +0.8 Aldebaran<\/a> (Alpha (\u03b1) Tauri) together with the V-shaped Hyades open cluster<\/a>.<\/p> As a challenge, see whether you can record Uranus as well.<\/p>![\"Capture](\"https:\/\/c02.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2023\/01\/moon-pleiades-028196c.jpg\")