After supper I went outside to see what the sky looked like. I wanted to play with my new, old refractor telescope from the 1970's that was a gift from a long time ASLI member. It was still light in the sky and I knew the moon would be a crescent, but I wasn't sure I could see it because sometimes it is really low in the sky. I was stunned to see this beautiful crescent moon high in the sky. So I quickly ran inside, grabbed my camera then went to the car and grabbed my tripod and finally managed to get this photograph. I love how incongruous it is to see our old broken TV antenna still on it's mast on the roof. Time to go up and take it down, but it does make an interesging foreground!
I continued watching the moon and then noticed a bright Jupiter up and to the left of the moon, shining brilliant in the darkening sky. If anyone is curious, the orange colored star down below Jupiter is Aldebaran. And what is really cool is, that if you click on this photograph to enlarge it, just below the moon are a group of six stars or more - they are the Pleiades! What a wonderful collection of objects in the night sky just after sunset!
2 comments:
Beautiful photos and thank you for pointing out other planets. Joan
Amazing that we get to see the Moon, Jupiter, Aldebaran which I have never heard of and Pleiades which I didn't realize is so close to the Moon. Very exciting. Betsey
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