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Delta of Venus
Dec. 4th, 2018 07:39 amToday I'm planning to set up a Japan photo album on Google and share it with you here - I want to make sure everything's set to public and that it's in chronological order. It looks like all the photos have geotags and such. I'm still a bit miffed at my phone dying halfway through but Fox did a good job picking up the slack.
I was up early this morning, as usual. The moon's a thin crescent right now, waning towards a new moon in a couple of days, so it's much darker when I get up than during the full moon, which out here can light things up like a lamp. It's also a lot cooler today - yesterday was miserable, anyway. I normally check the front yard out the window before going to the garage to get the bird feeder. (Bird feeders go inside at night so that deer and raccoons don't destroy them trying to get at the food) I'm not much of an astronomer so when I saw a bright light near the tops of the trees at first I thought someone had gotten a small drone stuck in the branches.
Outside I could see it was a star - an incredibly bright star. Bright enough that I stood outside for a while just looking at it, admiring its proximity to the thumbnail-clipping moon. Then I started getting chilled and got my ass in gear. Turns out that's Venus!
I don't know about other areas, so Florida and Southeastern US folks, if you're up before dawn this will be easy. Look for the moon. Nearby you're going to see a star that is super duper bright. It's Venus, and I looked it up, and it looks like we'll be able to enjoy the sight of her for at least a couple of weeks if not longer. Like I said, I'm no astronomer so I have to rely on star maps and astronomy blogs to tell me these things.
I love that I can actually SEE things like this. Yes, we have some light pollution out here, but obviously it's not that bad. You can even see the Milky Way sometimes. Mainly if the power's out in Jacksonville, so post-hurricane is your best bet for star gazing.
I was up early this morning, as usual. The moon's a thin crescent right now, waning towards a new moon in a couple of days, so it's much darker when I get up than during the full moon, which out here can light things up like a lamp. It's also a lot cooler today - yesterday was miserable, anyway. I normally check the front yard out the window before going to the garage to get the bird feeder. (Bird feeders go inside at night so that deer and raccoons don't destroy them trying to get at the food) I'm not much of an astronomer so when I saw a bright light near the tops of the trees at first I thought someone had gotten a small drone stuck in the branches.
Outside I could see it was a star - an incredibly bright star. Bright enough that I stood outside for a while just looking at it, admiring its proximity to the thumbnail-clipping moon. Then I started getting chilled and got my ass in gear. Turns out that's Venus!
I don't know about other areas, so Florida and Southeastern US folks, if you're up before dawn this will be easy. Look for the moon. Nearby you're going to see a star that is super duper bright. It's Venus, and I looked it up, and it looks like we'll be able to enjoy the sight of her for at least a couple of weeks if not longer. Like I said, I'm no astronomer so I have to rely on star maps and astronomy blogs to tell me these things.
I love that I can actually SEE things like this. Yes, we have some light pollution out here, but obviously it's not that bad. You can even see the Milky Way sometimes. Mainly if the power's out in Jacksonville, so post-hurricane is your best bet for star gazing.
