Walking home yesterday just after sunset, it was difficult to keep my eyes from the intriguing little dance which Jupiter, Venus and our moon are performing:
Evening temperatures are a gentle 28° C. (82° F.)
I didn’t need a coat!
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Picture taken from my front yard, around 7 pm.
Music clip features the theme tune of The Sky at Night, a documentary series which has run since 1957 on BBC Television .
"It's a bit of a cliché to say that the longest journey we ever make is the journey from the head to the heart!
#1 by S. Etole on February 27, 2012 - 9:09 am
Wonderfully framed …
#2 by JofIndia on February 27, 2012 - 9:20 am
Our tiny part of the cosmos is putting on an amazing show for us. My only problem was keeping the camera still enough for the long exposures needed to shoot the stars!
#3 by Glynn on February 27, 2012 - 4:57 pm
That is one beautiful photograph.
#4 by JofIndia on February 27, 2012 - 5:21 pm
It’s a very beautiful celestial alignment!
The night skies are a source of such wonder..
#5 by Toffeeapple on February 27, 2012 - 8:40 pm
I needed a coat but the spectacle more than made up for that. I do like looking at natural events in the sky.
#6 by JofIndia on February 27, 2012 - 9:04 pm
They seem to give me a different, and more balanced, perspective: the realisation that my mundane concerns are often of very little consequence..
#7 by Lucille on February 28, 2012 - 12:09 am
We’ve been watching this too from our balcony. What a fantastic picture you got.
#8 by JofIndia on February 28, 2012 - 12:24 pm
Isn’t it fantastic that we can enjoy this pleasing alignment from all over the world?!
#9 by Lucille on February 28, 2012 - 2:07 pm
Very connecting.
#10 by JofIndia on February 28, 2012 - 2:12 pm
Yes, a reminder that we all share this one physical world, and that our separate fates within it will always be bound together..
#11 by Megan Willome on March 3, 2012 - 10:09 pm
That is a stunning photo, especially with the tree on one side and the house on the other.
#12 by JofIndia on March 3, 2012 - 10:14 pm
Thank you!
I saw both Venus and Jupiter again this evening – but the moon having done her work has discretely waltzed away..