Tonight's night sky

[cowgrrl]

Did any of you(those of you in the Northern Hemisphere) happen to see the moon this evening? The moon with two rather bright objects (obviously planets) near it? I knew this had to be something unusual so I grabbed my camera when I got home and went outdoors to photograph it. Then I googled it. Sure enough it's a rare alignment of Jupiter and

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[cowgrrl]

Maybe you'll have better luck tonight?

[helygen]

Oooh I noticed something similar the other evening on my way home from work - nearly crashed the car, trying to figure out what I was seeing! Lovely photo :)

Ooh and thanks for the link :)

[cowgrrl]

I'm very glad you didn't crash your car! How nice that you got to see the moon and planets too. :-)

[neptunia67]

We had a clear sky and the moon and planets looked SO cool. I'm impressed with your picture!

[cowgrrl]

I love my new camera! Point-and-click with 4x optical zoom. That's all I was using. (On its night setting) I'm glad you got to see the sky too. :)

[fetish666]

my dad was so excited about it he called me and tolf me to take the girls and go look outside... i'm so glad we did! they are teenagers, and not easily impressed by such things. perhaps it will stick in their memories for the next 44 years and they can tell their kids "boring stories" about grandpa calling on a funny old device called a cell phone so that they could leave the store they were in to go out to the parking lot to see it happen years ago...

[cowgrrl]

Yes, they will hopefully still be alive to see the next one. And by then of course phones will probably be implanted directly in the brain or something like that. :-)

[shy_mermaid]

We saw it here. The planets were so bright and looked like you could reach out and touch them.