I noticed a very bright "star" by the crescent moon last night just after 8 pm. The image is wobbly... but in person, it was a sharp slash of brightness and an intense ball.
Online I find this image at EarthSky.org:
Two thoughts; If you look closely at the image above, you can see Venus, too, below and to the left of the moon.I wouldn't have seen Venus without this diagram from EarthSky.org. In that way, the diagram is like Merlin the bird-sound identifying app that I'm liking so much. The diagram/app helps point out things to discriminate in nature. Is it like a filter? It is like a positive discriminator.
Second thought: Both Merlin and this strike me as moments when I realize there are more things in heaven and earth... it's a sense that we are surrounded, enveloped in complex, interesting, dynamic things. That's level one of realization. Level two is that we always have been surrounded, enveloped in this complex reality, but we've been missing it.
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