Mt. Rainier with Jupiter
Jupiter was too far left to include in tonight's time lapse video, but here is a panorama showing both the planet and the mountain.
Jupiter is just a dot of light in this photo, about ⅓ below the top and ⅓ in from the left edge. It is above a tiny, isolated peak in the Cascade mountain range. If you can’t see it, click on the photo to open it in a new window, and then click again to enlarge it to full size. Or right-click and download to view on your computer.
The band of color in the sky is the Girdle of Venus, and is the shadow made by the earth’s atmosphere at sunset. It is reddened, just as the air is reddened at sunset, but it has more of a purple tint to it (usually), as shown here.
From foreground to background: a local dairy farm, forest around the Puyallup River, a plateau made of volcanic rock (with a cut through it where the Puyallup River comes through, draining the snowmelt from Mt. Rainier), the Cascade mountain range, and Mt. Rainier.