If skies are clear, individuals can view the conjunction by looking at the Moon and finding the brightest star in the sky next to the Moon, which will be Jupiter.
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Unfortunately, his mnemonic would only work in the northern hemisphere, where the moon is observed in the southern sky with the right side of the moon sunward during the waxing phase and the left side sunward during the waning phase.
Weiszbrod drives us slowly up the switchbacks of 9, 000-foot Kimball Mountain under a starry sky and a waning moon that is just past full, a bright thumb with a dirty fingernail.
In the dark, under a starry sky and a waning moon, Todd and I drove up the side of Kimball Mountain, one of the last large peaks on the westernmost slope of the Rockies.
We were into open country now, running straight up the coast about a mile from the ocean on a two-lane blacktop road across the dunes with no clouds in the sky and a full moon blazing down on the Pacific.
We stood up now and then to get our circulation going, and it was always the same: the wind was always blowing, there was always a semblance of moon, always in the same spot in the sky, and in front of the moon a fantastic cavalcade of ragged clouds, always the same.
It was colder than ever now, but the sky had cleared, and a bright moon had emerged from the clouds, cold and white in a pool of indigo sky right above the garden.
The electricity had failed, as it often did, and the full moon climbing the sky lit the scene indirectly, reflecting off the whitewashed walls, throwing dim shadows around the machinery strewn about, plows and planters, drags, harrows.
Above him, the moon persists in the sky despite the growing sunlight, making a silhouette of a golden eagle as it bobs up and down, riding warm currents in the air.
If a big enough one were to slam into the moon in the night sky you would think the sun was coming up early only it would be 5 to 7 times as bright.
In the southern hemisphere the moon is in the northern sky and its left and right sides reverse.
Stars popped out of the evening sky, then an almost-full moon rose above the trees and lit up the ledge.
We all shouted, and the happiness at having found them again was already fraught with the pain of having lost them now forever, as the moon rising in the dark sky sent out only the reflections of the sun on its lakes and fields.
It was still dark outside when I arrived but the sky was lit up by an incredibly large moon glowing over the ballpark -- a baseball cathedral transformed into a church thanks to a 50-by-50-foot altar in centerfield.
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On Monday, January 21st, the Moon will appear amazingly close in the sky to the largest planet in our solar system, Jupiter.
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Then they dissolve into nothing, only to form as if by stealth on a different horizon, dancing across the sky in the shape of a sea horse or crescent moon.
And the Moon is close by and always in the sky, unlike the asteroids that flyby the Earth at incredible velocities or inhabit orbits tens of millions of miles away that take years to reach.
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In ground-based images, the patch of sky (just one-tenth the diameter of the full Moon) is largely empty.
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For ten days of actual observing time, the Hubble pointed to an area on the sky less than one percent of the size of the full moon.
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Already the moon had risen, a flake of waxy alabaster in a blue sky thin with light.
This year's show in the sky may not produce as many highlights for some viewers because of light from the moon, NASA said in a statement.
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The moon, a giant balloon filled with bright film lights, will ascend into the sky above College Green each evening from Thursday until Sunday.
The moon waxed over the Crescent City like a sliver over the Mississippi River, a cradle in the sky over the cradle of jazz.
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