Pretty pre-dawn sky

Hello, everyone.

Tge other day I saw a piece at spaceweather.com about a beautiful sky display of planets and the moon. On the twenty-fourth, I woke up before dawn, and, since I was awake anyway, went outside to see if the promised view of moon and planets was available. In my area, especially in the summer, clouds come in after sundown and the morning is still cloudy for a while. This time, though, I got lucky.

The sky was crystal clear, and I was able to see at least two planets. There may have been more, but I was only able to fit a couple into the phone camera. It was so pretty!

Beautiful sky view yesterday

 Hello, everyone. 

Continuing the learn-as-you-go work on the phone, I went outside before sunrise yesterday to try and see the astronomical conjunction that I had read and heard about.

It's supposed to be a lineup of four planets with the crescent moon nearby.

In my area, we're close enough to the sea that most early mornings are cloaked in clouds, which blow away after the sun comes up. I was therefore not optimistic about my chances to see anything at all.

Looking east about half an hour before sunrise, two planets were playing hide and seek, so to say, with the breaking clouds and the moon was bright enough to shine through. 

Beautiful!