Tonight's night sky

[cowgrrl]

Did any of you(those of you in the Northern Hemisphere) happen to see the moon this evening? The moon with two rather bright objects (obviously planets) near it? I knew this had to be something unusual so I grabbed my camera when I got home and went outdoors to photograph it. Then I googled it. Sure enough it's a rare alignment of Jupiter and Venus with the moon. That was one of many articles about it.

Comments

[cowgrrl.livejournal.com]

I'm lucky to live across the street from a softball field (it's adjacent to an elementary school). It's a little darker here than most streets in the city. Sometimes I can even see a few stars!

[cluelessinchi.livejournal.com]

I can see some as well but it sure is dark in more rural areas. I was up at 4AM last night and between the snow and the light pollution it was just an over cast sky. It really was not much darker then at 4AM than it was at 4PM.

The whole sky is light up for miles, miles and miles around Chicago.