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| Pre-dawn |
Up early this
morning to try and catch a sight of the "dance of the planets"
Five of the planets are to line up across the sky just before dawn
all this week from Jupiter, up near the brightest star Arcturus, to
Mars, Saturn, then to Venus and finally, Mercury low on the horizon.
Hopefully the clear skies will hold until the weekend.
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| Waxing Gibbous Moon |
The stars were bright enough to overcome the light of a gibbous moon so the planets could be picked out. Jupiter big and bright, Mars dusky red, Saturn difficult to spot and Venus clear as ever. Clouds low on the horizon obscured Mercury.
The fiery red dawn
heralded another rare phenomenon, a mother-of-pearl sky or nacreous
clouds.
High in the
stratosphere they didn't move but shone, vivid and iridescent for an
hour or more until the rising sun dispelled their magic.
The camera, at least, my camera didn't do it justice. Truly worth getting
of of bed early to witness.
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