Wonderful Sights In The Sky On January 2, 2010

What a way to begin the year and the decade. The Moon was shining brightly and was accompanied by the Planet Mars as well as the Twin Stars of Gemini: Castor and Pollux. The photographs were taken at around 9:00 PM on January 2nd.

Castor, Pollux, Mars and The Moon:


Labeled so you can see what is what:


Mars and The Moon:


Mars - close-up!


Mars - close-up!






Some Stars including the Constellation Orion:


Some Stars including the Constellation Orion:


Previous pic lightened so you can see more Stars:


Here is some video footage of the evening (taken at about 10:00 PM):


Here is the url in case the clip does not embed properly:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GC35GnDj0gs