Good evening fellow stargazers!
Today I want to share with y'all my latest night sky photographic offerings for your viewing pleasure. I was about to capture outstanding shots of the beautiful waxing crescent moon aligned with Venus and Saturn in the western sky after sunset.
Taken about fifty minutes after sunset these two photographs show the young crescent moon near the two planets Venus and Saturn close to the western horizon. The day before Venus and Saturn were in close conjunction (about a moon's width apart) but I was unable to get a photo of this due to an evening rainstorm and cloud cover.
As you can see in my first photo, the two planets are almost perfectly aligned in the evening sky. The second photo is a close-up shot of the three heavenly bodies. Distant Saturn appears brightest about 40 minutes after sunset making it easy to spot among the first evening "stars" to appear in the sky dome. Hot Venus, the bright evening star, is of course the third-brightest body visible from Earth in the Solar System, after our lovely Luna and the Sun.
If you look closely at the first picture you might notice something a bit eerie. A small, bright colorful object to the left of the shot.
Is it an actual UFO?! Did I actually capture photographic evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence?!
Weeeeeeell, not exactly. Its actually a commercial passenger jet plane flying in its path and the colors are the bright running lights of the plane as its moving as the photograph was being shot. No aliens here.
Oh well....stranger things can happen if you keep looking at the night skies.
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