Photo Of The Day: April 24, 2008

I've been reading that the next few days will be good opportunities to spot Mercury in the sky. It reminds me that I still owe you a close-up shot of Saturn. "Close-up" is, of course, relative, since Saturn is almost one billion miles from Earth. But it's also huge -- roughly ten times the size of Earth. So on the right night, with the right conditions, it can be photographed. Here's how it looked earlier this year. For more pictures of the sky at night, visit Paul Scharff Photography.com.