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Related: About this forumPhotos of 'distant objects,' taken from head of my bed @ 5 a.m.,
inspired by the Moon waking me up, and this great diagram from the Farmer's Almanac:
#AstronomyAlert: Look to the southeast before dawn on 12/5 and through the weekend to see the crescent Moon line up with the morning planets: Jupiter, Mars, and Venus. The bright blue giant star Spica will be to the right of Venus. The Moon will move downward, closer to the horizon each night as it wanes toward the New Moon phase. On the 7th, look for it very close to #Venus!
https://www.facebook.com/TheFarmersAlmanac/photos/a.293370841458.158289.50196126458/10153122635766459/?type=3&theater
This is the Moon (with reflection through double paned window) and JUPITER, upper right.
This is solo Jupiter.
Later I saw Mars and Venus, much too small to catch, and THEN saw bright SPICA, but I was too pooped to get the camera out; it was about 6 a.m. Maybe tonight (tomorrow morning)
Thanks, that's cool!
elleng
(131,370 posts)Had seen the Almanac pic and read about it BEFORE being awakened by the Moon Thursday night, and just couldn't pass it up!
I've been watching that group for months now.
elleng
(131,370 posts)I've just begun to watch!
2naSalit
(86,920 posts)all my life. My dad was a celestial navigator and shared some of his knowledge with us. He had a pretty hefty telescope, we even saw Sputnik! And I spent over a decade on the road, watching the sky was my favorite pastime. I'm hoping that soon the moon and Venus will line up such that they appear like an earring with Venus as the post-stone and the crescent moon dangling from it's tip. Saw that twice so far but it was decades in between!
elleng
(131,370 posts)MY Dad was an attorney, so that's me! Somehow I acquired a fascination with nature, and I'm now living in just the right place.
As to Sputnik, we flew to Europe for our first trip there on that very date, Oct. 4, 1957, a day that remains in infamy!!!
Nice earring you're imagining!
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,727 posts)They were right next to each other. Well, you know what I mean. Somewhere, I suspect lucky viewers will get to see the moon occult Venus. Mars and Jupiter were up there too.
Bad news for me: some people just moved in next door. Right away they installed a pair of bright lights to illuminate their back yard. Why? Who are they expecting? I do not know. The lights have made a mess of stargazing for me.
elleng
(131,370 posts)through my bedroom window repeatedly LATE night and EARLY morning, saw stars but NO moon. I DID see Jupiter, but didn't identify other planets. p.s., what time? I can go out tomorrow morning to look for Moon and Venus.
That's AWFUL about your new neighbors. NONE possible here, but am going to NJ for a few days, this weekend, so will miss expected meteor shower as my daughter's house is too surrounded by TREES!
hunter
(38,349 posts)... but it clouded up just before the moon occluded Venus.
AuntPatsy
(9,904 posts)elleng
(131,370 posts)These 'common' things are very exciting to me, and I have a perfect place from which to watch. Last night/early morning saw no moon but lots of stars (and planets!)