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Night Skies Over Cape Cod

View Comments By David Filed in Observing notes Tagged with Capecod, Jupiter August 25th, 2008 @ 5:17 am

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Originally uploaded by david parmet

Here’s the view from the backyard of our beach house. The bright ‘start’ at the bottom is Jupiter, that’s about as high as it got over the trees.

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