It was a dark and stormy night

The Moon and the planet Jupiter.
Composite of images taken with a tripod mounted
Canon 600D DSLR with EOS 90-300mm telephoto lens at 300mm,
from our backyard just before midnight on the 21st November 2013

Last night, Jupiter and its retinue of Galilean Moons came within 6 degrees of our Moon. The weather has been wet, cold and windy for several days, but last night the clouds parted to afford a brief glimpse of the gibbous Moon and Jupiter the largest planet in our solar system.  Our Moon is much closer than Jupiter and so looks much larger.  In reality our Moon is comparable in size with Jupiter's moons which can just be seen in my photograph as star-like dots on each side of Jupiter's disc.

If you turn binoculars on Jupiter (shining very bright in the constellation Gemini) you will be able to see Jupiter's big four moons all lined up. If you follow Jupiter from night to night you will be able to see the moons change position as they orbit the planet.