Showing posts with label venus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label venus. Show all posts

Sunday, April 8, 2012

The Pleiades

Just after sunset, look to the west. The brightest object in the sky is Venus and right below it, with a pair of binoculars you'll be able to see the Pleiades. :)

Sunday, February 26, 2012

Planetary Alignment

In the maddening crowd of Crawford Market, I suddenly chanced upon a sight I had been waiting for but had completely forgotten about... A delicate silver crescent hung in the sky. And above it, in a perfectly straight line were Venus and Jupiter shining silently in the blue evening twilight.
For that single moment, heaven was right above my head.