Tonight:
- It was totally clouded over (as predicted), so no fiery sunset, no Jupiter, no Venus, no moon.
- It was The Long-Suffering Wife’s birthday, so we were out at a truly wonderful Brazilian fusion restaurant in Tarzana. If you’re in the area, we can recommend it. The food was amazing, and the entertainment was rather eye-catching as well.
So here’s the sunset and conjunction pictures from yesterday. They were going to go up Friday night, but somehow we got infested with rainbows.
Unlike the previous “clear and a million” evenings, tonight we had the beginning of a monsoonal front moving up from Baja.
It wasn’t the absolute best sunset we’ve ever had, but it was pretty nice.
In that pink, cotton candy sky it was harder to see Venus and Jupiter, especially during dusk when the clouds were illuminated.
Venus wasn’t too hard. It’s the third brightest natural object in the sky, after all. (You do know what the first two would be, right?)
Jupiter was a little harder, and when it got darker it also got a bit cloudier. But finally it popped out into view.
Once it was almost fully dark and the clouds were still fairly thin, there they were. I hope this wasn’t the last we see of them here in LA before the conjunction on Tuesday.
The moon, of course, was lovely. With a relatively large (300 mm) telephoto lens, it’s bright enough so you can get by without a tripod and not get blurring by shooting all the way up at 1/4000 sec.
We’ll see if the clouds clear tomorrow.
We Love The Stars Too Fondly 