2015 mar 11 – the owls and venus
some pictures from a few weeks ago that i am late to post, taken with my mobile phone – great-horned owls and venus
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same night, another great-horned owl with venus and mount tam in background with city lights
a moon and two planets
the night sky after dusk on this hot day revealed our Earth’s Moon waxing at first quarter, with Saturn and Mars to the lower right of it. the constellation of Scorpio is just under the Moon, with the “left arm” of the scorpion reaching up to the moon, and Antares, the bright red star in that constellation, shining brightly to the lower left of the Moon.
Antares is a supergiant star, and said to be 883 times the radius of our sun!
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