Thursday, January 31, 2008

A Great Way to Start the Day

No, I'm not talking about coffee. When I left the house at 515am this morning, Venus and Mercury were just above the lightening sky announcing the imminent arrival of the Sun. Venus is the higher, brighter point of light, and Mercury is the lower one.

Last January five, Venus, the red star Antares of the constellation Scorpius, and the Moon were all in a horizontal row in the east.

Now if only I had a celestial object capable camera.

3 comments:

JP Loh said...

I was wondering if you got to observe the near-earth Asteroid pass by.

P. C. Ocampo said...

Nope. Didn't think of it when they said can't see it without a medium power telescope.

JP Loh said...

Oh well. Maybe next time when it hits us (hopefully, our side of the planet).