Ok, if I sound skeptical, I am not at all. I have no doubt this picture is legit, I am just not thinking about it correctly to understand what I am seeing. I had forgotten the planets were in different planes, so that explains the over/under. But I still am not seeing it totally right.
From your descriptions, and from the angle of the sunlight on the planets I made this graphic. It's not to scale of course, but does it correctly represent the relationship of the planets in the photo?
If it does, shouldn't Jupiter be way smaller than it is in the picture? At this angle and magnification, Jupiter should appear farther away from the camera then it does from us here on earth. And yet Jupiter from earth is just a small colored dot.
Still
Geoschmo
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