The Moon, Jupiter and Venus tonight converged in a wonderfully clear sky. Grabbing my camera I snapped a couple of pictures which do little justice to this wonderfully serene view. The light pollution from Brighton did a good job of blocking out much of the rest of the sky leaving an extremely clear view of this conjunction. Seeing three close stellar objects in a small window of the sky makes you really wonder about the skies on other planets. Just imagine the spectacular vistas there must be on the surface of far flung systems. Especially the more  active systems or highly compacted clusters and galaxies.

Our skies are pretty tame on the whole with stellar events of significance few and far between. This event even though insignificant held me in fascination; its a shame that only in my imagination could I conceive the jaw dropping and totally overwhelming vistas that must exist throughout the universe.

You can find some lovely images here.