08-20-2016, 03:39 AM
I'm not sure if any of you caught it last night with that brilliant almost full moon but there's a triangle being formed between Mercury, Jupiter and Venus. It was in the southern part of the sky yesterday around 8p.m. It's really quite brilliant with the different colors of the planets shining in that geometric pattern. There are a few other stars right outside the triangle too. I think it's right near scorpius or at least that's what the Star Chart told me. BTW for anyone who owns a smartphone, there is a free app called Star Chart. It reads the stars for you. Hold your phone up to the night sky and your phone knows where the stars are thru gps and gives you the name of a star anywhere you point the phone. It knows where the horizon is but you can still point your phone toward the earth and it reads the stars in that direction too, right through the ground.