I don't have a camera capable of taking shots like this, but the top photo approximates what I saw at dusk on Monday:the crescent moon with the planet Jupiter just below it, as the evening star. Skygazers with telescopes will be watching Jupiter's moons this week. It was about a year ago that the November lst quarter moon was joined by both Jupiter and Venus, commemorated in the lower photo. I did spend an hour or so watching the sky last week during the Leonid meteor shower. Mostly what I saw were sinuous clouds moving around the sky, though there were large, ever-shifting swatches where stars were visible, and I did actually see three shooting stars. I've still to see a real shower--the kind with one meteor per second.
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