Saturn visible behind Lutetia during flyby

Hey, this is pretty cool; I'm always a fan of planetary conjunctions.

Saturn was visible in a few of the images of Lutetia taken by Rosetta as it passed by!

Fly-by of Lutetia is a success

Another successful asteroid fly-by!
http://www.planetary.org/blog/article/00002577/

Old Mars photos from 2003: No, it's not going to be big in August.

Inspired by a query regarding the false meme going around about Mars, I took a look at some images I took of Mars during it's big opposition in 2003. That was a great opposition. Here's a couple of those images. The first one is a single image without manipulation, the second and third are Registax processed images from videos, and the last is one of those videos.
Mars at the moment is not approaching one of those awesome 17 year oppositions like 2003 or 1988. It's just fading away from its January opposition and currently visible in Leo in the evening.