Moon, Venus and Jupiter
Posted by GruntDoc on December 1st, 2008
Tonight, from the porch.
I know it’s them (Well, Sky & Telescope knows, and that’s enough for me).
More from Wired:
In what’s called a planetary conjunction, the two planets —the brightest in the night sky — will appear extremely close, separated by only the width of a finger held at arm’s length. They won’t be this close together and well-placed for evening viewing again until May 2013.
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December 1st, 2008 at 9:47 pm
Pretty cool, wasn’t it!
December 1st, 2008 at 10:03 pm
Great shot. I couldn’t get a decent photo with my PhD camera (push here dummy).
December 2nd, 2008 at 9:00 am
I THOUGHT the “stars” were extra shiny last night. But I thought it was because I was leaving work before 8PM.
December 2nd, 2008 at 10:49 am
[...] Moon, Venus and Jupiter December 2nd, 2008 [...]
December 2nd, 2008 at 9:54 pm
I meant to look at it and I forgot! Thanks for posting the photo, at least I can see what I missed… :-)
Great picture, very clear.
December 3rd, 2008 at 4:50 am
The stellar formation was smiley-shaped where I was. We got a pretty good shot at it in the Philippines.
Click here.
They were in smiley formation in Asia and Oceania.
December 18th, 2008 at 10:24 am
My wife and I were taking our dogs for a walk on 2nd December 2008 at about 08:30 pm when we
saw the Moon, Venus and Jupiter on the left of the Grey High School Tower, in Port
Elizabeth, South Africa. We went home, fetched our cellphone, returned and took this picture
(at 08:59 pm). The cellphone is a Nokia N95 8GB cellphone with a Carl Zeiss 5 Megapixel
lens. Want to put a picture on Youtube? It’s easy. Use Windows Movie Maker to convert the
picture into a video. Make the video about a minute long. Windows Movie Maker comes with
Windows.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1mKFVdstAY