Oh man, my apologies to all! I forgot to post the blog last night! I was so thrilled with the photograph, that I occupied myself sending it to a few friends, and then forgot the blog... :-) Stan sent me an email this morning asking where the blog was. Duh! I was at home working on some photographs when I got a call from a non-astronomer friend who lives a short distance away. He said: "Have you seen the moon and that star? Man, I am some astronomer… I said that I hadn’t seen it, and that the “star” was Venus. I went outside, saw the conjunction, fell down on my face in amazement, got up, and then got my camera! This is the result! What a wonderful thing this is to see, so beautiful and uplifting to see Something, for a moment, that reminds us of the eternal, and which takes our mind off of our earthly problems for a few moments.
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I saw this beautiful sight last night soon after dusk and then looked again a couple more times later in the evening as the sky went into darkness. Although I am not an astronomer, I assumed the planet I was looking in our western sky was Venus. I thought about sending you an iPhone shot of Venus with South Carolina's crescent moon but decided a zoomed and grainy picture wouldn't be too exciting. Your photo is fantastic!
Primo: Thanks! Getting a decent photo is a bit harder than it looks, especially with a cell phone.
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