Hi Mike,
You early risers can catch a nice venus-jupiter conjunction. Tomorrow before sunrise will, strictly speaking, be about 2 days post-conjunction, but it still should be a pretty sight. If you can’t get down low enough in the sky, you might catch the slim crescent moon drifting by orange Antares. Look to the east before sunrise tomorrow.
We’ve got a clear eastern horizon here in Boulder, so I’m hoping to wake up tomorrow morning about 6 am to see this.
–rakkity
Here’s what the conjunction looked like from the park across the street from us in Boulderville. It’s not exactly a dark sky site. On the left you can see a park light, on the right, there’s a big amber blob of a street light, in the middle, there is someone’s front room visible through their front window, and hanging above these mundane things, are Venus, Jupiter and the moon. (There’s some fuzzy unidentified object in the sky to the left of Venus. It may be an internal reflection in my camera.)
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OUCH RAK. That hurts…
Sorry, Jen! I don’t know what’s wrong. I tried viewing it right now from my Mac and my daughter’s PC, and they both work. Perhaps the blogmeister can copy the picture to mainecourse and change the link accordingly?