Wispy Moonless Sunrise

Wispy Moonless Sunrise
Wispy Moonless Sunrise (Thu 19 Jul 2012) – click image for entire album

I didn’t plan to get my camera out for the third morning in a row this week.  There was no chance of seeing any moon, since only six hours had passed since the old moon became the new moon.

But when I went outside to take out the trash, I looked east and saw some nice pastels caressing the thin wispy clouds. I could still easily see Venus and Jupiter and barely discern Aldebaran, at least for the first few minutes.

Wispy Moonless Sunrise

Then the bolder colors began to shine forth.

Wispy Moonless Sunrise

At one point, I could see Venus shining brightly through a pink cloud. The photograph I took did not do justice to what I actually saw with my naked eye, but if you look closely, you can probably spy Venus behind the cloud.

Wispy Moonless Sunrise
Venus in the Pink