[SunkenCiv]

[Credit & Copyright: Tunç Tezel (TWAN)]

[Condor51]

I get up pretty early, between 4:00am and 5:00am and one thing I enjoy doing is after having my coffee and coming back upstairs getting dressed, is opening the bedroom drapes is seeing the 'Morning Star', Venus shining brightly.

In the summer it rises almost directly East and now as the seasons change 'it moves' South. It's now in the Southeastern sky. And on Aug-Sept mornings it's pretty cool, Venus and the Moon are side-by-side, only a few degrees separating them. (And If I can't see Venus I know the weather will be crappy that day.)

I was going to keep a log with the degrees East it rises each day and the angle at that time of morning I look. Maybe I'll start that next year.

[Verginius Rufus]

The bright star almost directly to the left of Jupiter is Zeta Tauri. Chinese records report that a “guest star” appeared near that star on July 4, 1054, and was brighter than Venus, and could be seen in the daylight for 23 days. The Crab Nebula (Messier 1) resulted from the explosion of that supernova.