Monday, September 20, 2010

APOD 1.3

Clouds, Birds, Moon, Venus September 15, 2010

The sky is such an amazing place! Pure luck and good timing is all it took for the photographer to capture this magical moment. After following a link on the website, the clouds are actually very interesting. The storm clouds are coming but what we are interested in are the white clouds. The white clouds are called shelf clounds because they are attached to larger clouds. Another aspect of the picture is that you can see Venus and it is day time. In this picture you cannot tell that the planet is actually in it's crescent phase. All over the world, photographers were taking pictures of this amazing sight. I wouldn't blame them either. The fact that both the moon and Venus can be captured in one photo is truly astounding. I love this picture and think that it is a great way to show how beautiful our heavens can be.

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