Author Topic: The moon stars on the Feast of the Annunciation (Read 1060 times)

Thorn · « **on:** March 25, 2012, 10:27:23 PM »

Please, please go out now & look toward the West.

There you will see the waxing crescent moon as in Our Lady of Guadalupe. Above it is brilliant Venus, sometimes called the Morning Star, which is also another name for the Blessed Virgin Mary. If you're really fortunate, you'll also see a group of little stars above that called the Pleiades. Jupiter is to the left & below the moon but I can't see that now. Beautiful!!!

Thorn · « **Reply #1 on:** March 25, 2012, 10:29:07 PM »

Sorry, I was writing too fast. It's the moon AND stars

Marcelino · « **Reply #2 on:** March 25, 2012, 10:31:40 PM »

cool!

Caraffa · « **Reply #3 on:** March 25, 2012, 10:36:33 PM »

I noticed that the crescent moon was on its bottom side tonight. I don't think that I've ever seen that before, at least not that I can remember.

Augstine Baker · « **Reply #4 on:** March 27, 2012, 07:36:10 AM »

Quote from: Thorn

Please, please go out now & look toward the West.

There you will see the waxing crescent moon as in Our Lady of Guadalupe. Above it is brilliant Venus, sometimes called the Morning Star, which is also another name for the Blessed Virgin Mary. If you're really fortunate, you'll also see a group of little stars above that called the Pleiades. Jupiter is to the left & below the moon but I can't see that now. Beautiful!!!

There were two bright planets just above the moon. The brighter one was Venus, I assume. How about the other?

s2srea · « **Reply #5 on:** March 27, 2012, 08:31:16 AM »

Quote from: Augstine Baker

There were two bright planets just above the moon. The brighter one was Venus, I assume. How about the other?

Jupiter.

Augstine Baker · « **Reply #6 on:** March 27, 2012, 08:50:07 AM »

Quote from: s2srea

Quote from: Augstine Baker

There were two bright planets just above the moon. The brighter one was Venus, I assume. How about the other?

Jupiter.

Thanks!

Someone was blogging about that recently. I'm going to see if I can find out what that's all about.

s2srea · « **Reply #7 on:** March 27, 2012, 08:57:55 AM »

No problemo. If you have even a weak telescope, you should grab it, and check out jupiter. Its the more brighter one if I'm not mistaken. You can see its moons floating around it. Its really cool. Saturn was out a few months ago, and I had a higher magnification scope at that time and seeing the rings around it was, pun intended, out of the world. :wink: