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Moon transited venus this morning - alohanaia - 01-31-2019
Did anybody else watch around 5am when the moon transited venus? Venus exited right on the cusp of the arc, it was surreal and quite spectacular. I got a cellphone pic, pretty neat but not clear enough with the contrast.
(And if someone posted a good picture I'd be stoked.)
Aloha
RE: Moon transited venus this morning - alaskyn66 - 01-31-2019
I was watching it but didn't get a picture. I was tempted to set my Sony handycam up and zoom in on it, but was to lazy... and cold.
RE: Moon transited venus this morning - alohanaia - 01-31-2019
Here's what I took with the phone. The contrast blew out so you can't see that venus is exiting on the arc of the crescent of the waning moon.
https://imgur.com/a/cGJbgMe
aloha
RE: Moon transited venus this morning - Rob Tucker - 01-31-2019
I saw it. It was lovely.
RE: Moon transited venus this morning - Carey - 01-31-2019
Not the greatest (shoulda dragged out the tripod... but it was sooo early!)
Moon & Venus
https://www.dropbox.com/s/4spmrp9qfoufbn2/IMG_0425.jpeg?dl=0
Moon Venus & Jupiter:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/w3557kibh2o2jhu/IMG_0426.jpeg?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/olzp26eg6srpbfa/IMG_0427.jpeg?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/v3kvkxkfaf1ezvf/IMG_0428.jpeg?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/q0b9671cxmoxfd4/IMG_0429.jpeg?dl=0
RE: Moon transited venus this morning - alohanaia - 01-31-2019
Thanks Carey, I am stoked to see the crescent like that.
You reminded me that the 3 in a row in my pic are moon/venus, jupiter, antares.
RE: Moon transited venus this morning - birdmove - 01-31-2019
I saw it. Got up super early to fly to Oahu (Kaiser Permanente appointment) and as soon as I went outside saw the sky was super clear and saw the moon. Didn't know if it was a star hugging he moon, or maybe Venus? It was strikingly beautiful!
Jon in Keaau/HPP
RE: Moon transited venus this morning - alohanaia - 01-31-2019
Found relevent sky chart here, though my unofficial sky clock thinks the same saturn transit happens tomorrow morning?
https://earthsky.org/?p=298271
Thanks for input gentle people.
Edit: I'm blind I didn't even notice he mentioned this morn's event:
https://earthsky.org/tonight/see-moon-3-morning-planets-before-daybreak.
And I just noticed a funny Moana related thing... In this guys sky chart his angle between Venus & Antares is like 10 degrees because he's looking from somewhere like 45N. In my pic the angle is like 35 degrees because we are 20N. So our ecliptic (the planetary plane) will appear 25 degrees more vert than his. Nainoa Thompson consulted on Moana and they throw in accurate celestial navigation for about 5 seconds if you're listening (Envision what the sky looks like where you came from and where you want to be)
Aloha
RE: Moon transited venus this morning - randomq - 01-31-2019
Saw it as well, very cool. Gotta love this clear weather!
RE: Moon transited venus this morning - hrooster - 01-31-2019
Took this pic as I walked into work this am. Not sure if I'm seeing Venus or Jupiter here....it was ~645am and just a beautiful sight:
https://www.facebook.com/thehroost/photos/a.195981184590713/338312183690945/?type=3&theater