General Discussion & Chat: Saw a wonderful celetial spectacle this morning, 1 by Dinu

Dinu wrote:
I wonder how many thought so. But I just could not help gazing at that marvellous sight in the eastern sky before and just a few minutes after the first rays of the sun lit the sky.

I had got up early this morning and was out for my morning walk well before dawn. 5.40 to be precise. After a 3-minute ride I was on the ground - I go to the athletic ground for various reasons - for my first steps of the 35-minute session. I always look at the sky, look at my favourite constellation, the Orion, if it is still visible. On the eastern sky this morning, there was a feast waiting for me. The two arms of the 1% waning crescent moon seemed like inviting the two bright objects - one must be some brighter planet and the other dimmer star. They were the most pronounced in that range of vision. I don't know how many times I looked at it during my 7-8 rounds of the athletic track and for 10 minutes during the excercise session, though by that time day had broken and the sky had turned from orange to bright white as the sun was making his way up and the dimmer star had become invisible. I have imitated the sight here in MS Paint. The angle is too much acute here where as it was about 20 degrees up towards the left, actually. Hope you can spot 'my dim star' in this.

Last month, I had seen another spectacle - man made. It was the International Space Station orbiting the earth. Two lights slowly moved in the sky for some minutes. That time I was in the train returning from a long journey when the train had stopped at a station 600 miles from home and I was relaxing near the door to stretch my legs a bit. I looked up and there was that. On my return home, the local paper, the next evening, had alerted citizens to view the spectacle, much to my delight. People here too saw the same a day later.