and other chatter..
While driving into town Tuesday morning I planned the post I'd do for today. It sounded good as I talked out loud to myself. What did I know. My brain was fuzzy and the beginning of a migraine was forming in the middle of my forehead. Driving in the dark, it all sounded pretty clever. Now, as I sit down to write it up, I haven't a clue as to what I was thinking. I can't even remember the subject.
What I do remember is the moon Monday evening as I drove home. Hope you caught it. On the news later, I heard it described as a smile or a frown, depending on where you viewed it. I saw it hanging low in the sky, a bright crescent. In my sky, below and to the side were the two planets, Venus and Jupiter, a cosmic frown against an orange and blue twilight. I reached for my camera. No luck. It had been left behind in my tool bag, riding home in another truck. You can check out pictures and info on National Geographic's site. Better yet, there is a slide here, with pictures from around the globe, planets and moon changing orientation with the viewing location.
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10 responses to “did you see the moon”
I saw it on Sandy’s blog on Monday. I couldn’t see here it as it was obscured by my tall pines. Great links.
I’ve been watching Jupiter get “closer” to Venus since October. We saw a planetarium presentation in Tulsa, OK, which was geared to this season. For the first time in my life I’ve known what I was seeing in the sky. What joy!
I confess that my stargazer friend called me to remind me to look up.
It was quite a sight, once the clouds cleared out.
I write my best posts while driving and they never make it out of the car. I saw the moon, but the planets were obscured by the haze.
Argh. I forgot all about it. My son would have loved it!
I saw the moon and went in the house to get my tripod and camera. By the time I got back out there the sky had completely clouded over and the moon was no longer visible. I was really disappointed but I’m glad I at least saw it even if I didn’t get photos.
When I saw those spots of light not moving, I wondered what planets they were. Thank you!
Yep, I made sure to look for it when I left work that day. Very cool! 🙂
I hope you got over your migraine…
Oh yea we saw it! Very cool!
We saw it as we were leaving my son’s house – he lives close enough to DIA – and there were planes in contention (plane? planet?) but once we got away from Denver, it was apparent.
Gorgeous. Of course we had a camera but the batteries were dead from baby photos!!