Here's a selfie I took of myself some decades ago. I never bothered to date it. However, the slide itself provides many clues. The camera is pointed due south and is trained on the ecliptic. The waning moon was just out of view to the left, appearing almost equally spaced with the planetary conjunction being photographed (albeit out of focus). The bluish star Spica in the constellation of Virgo is left of my left elbow.
With the aid of http://www.stellarium.org/ (see graphic below) I was able to go back in time to find the date and nearest hour of the San Franciscan night.
Jupiter, Saturn, and Mars span the image. The date is April 11th, 1982; a little after one in the morning.
I took two more slides that morning as I noticed the clothesline and decided to hang the planets and star on them!
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| Sunday, April 11, 1982 |
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