Anne and I came home from the store tonight, and I saw an absolutely beautiful not-quite-conjunction of a perfect Cheshire Cat moon and Venus in the Southwestern sky.
I tried to grab a picture of it, but this was the best I could do:
This picture completely fails to capture how magnificent it really was. The Earthshine was just bright enough to make the perfectly sharp edges of the full disc pop out from the sky, almost like it was a cutout, pasted onto some dark paper or something. Venus (which you can almost see between the branches of a tree across the street -- an effect I thought would be cool but didn't translate well) was incredibly brilliant, and continuing the construction paper analogy, could have been a pinhole with a light behind it.
But check out this really freaky UFO I saw just before I headed inside:
At first, I thought it was a plane, but it never changed its position in the sky.
UPDATE: I took a photo of the streetlight that's outside my house this morning, for comparison:
Clearly, this isn't what I photographed when I saw that UFO last night.
