Evening sky tonight has the crescent moon with Jupitar(upper right) and Venus in one shot. Having spent most of my surfcasting life watching the heavens waiting for a take - I just love the nighttime sky!

DZ

Bump this is an awesome sight right now!

Damn trees!

It is awesome

Darn clouds! :(

looked way cool....
but then a long tail of clouds
got in the way
of grabbing a picture

This is funny because everyone at Track was saying how there is only two stars out right now. I guess those were not stars.:laugha:

hmmm..... noticed this leaving work but didnt know what it was.....way cool!

Nice scene. I've been watching the transition for a few days. Jupiter and venus were more vertical till tonight.Is this formation something that happens every so often? I don't remember seeing this formation b/4.

I saw it driving my kids home. I knew it was special but did nto know why.
Very cool....

Wow that is soo funny. Rocco can you believe i specifically brought that up today. That is really neat and interesting thanks

I saw them from the parking loit at the River Herring Hearing in Plymouth and theought they were two planes....pretty cool

Here are a few interesting cellestial tidbits:
You can see a few of Jupiter's moons even with a pair of binoculars.

Venus, because of it's rotation on its axis, goes through similar phases much like our moon. It can appear as "full" and "crescent" depending when it's viewed.

A good telescope (I'm not talking NASA caliber, just good for amatuer viewers) will allow you to see things most people on this planet have NEVER seen.

I have a old Celestron, and a number of different optical lens for various viewing scenarios, and 2 2x Barlow multiplier lens that double the magnification of whatever optical lens you choose.

In a nut shell, I have found that by carefully "piggy-backing" the 2x Barrlow lens, I can quadruple the magnification. In a sense, I can practically look into the craters on the moon, see Jupters visibale moons in all their glory, see Saturn's rings, the Andromeda Galacy and the gas nebula that make up part of the constellation Orion.
I've see the trailing edge of the shadow on a lunar eclipse and the iceball that made up the last major comet to come our way in the past 20 years.


I don't use it as much as I used to, but I would never part with it because it's easy to use, and you can ALWAYS learn something from it.

Remember the atronomer's motto: "Always keep looking up!"

You can still see it tonight not as close to the moon but still cool

On the way home from hunting last night I noticed it, and wanted to grab the camera and take some pics, but got home and forgot all about it.

THANKS DZ and Fisherman Tim!!

when i first saw it two nights ago,

that moon and the warm temps made me wanna

go striperin',,,,,,,,,sumthin fierce. i ALSO, luv the
nighttime skies. everyone else remember that
kick-arse comet we saw last summer???

icing on the proverbial surfcaster CAKE!!!
:uhuh: :uhuh: :uhuh:

hmmm..... noticed this leaving work but didnt know what it was.....way cool!

I did the same exact thing...when I got home my 5 year old asked me if I saw the Venus and Jupiter and the Crescent Moon...I was like oh you knew what I was looking at huh?:doh:

Nice scene. I've been watching the transition for a few days. Jupiter and venus were more vertical till tonight.Is this formation something that happens every so often? I don't remember seeing this formation b/4.

won't happen again till something like 2055

I'll be 109 years old say happy birthday :rotf3:
hope I'm still fishing

Haha in 2055 i will look up to see it and just remember this thread.

Haha in 2055 i will look up to see it and just remember this thread.

:smokin: geeze that's confidence....the Mayan calander says the world is gonna end in 2012.