Moon and ...? I'm not sure...

[Rosanella]

I've been noticing a very bright object (south east of the waxing crescent Moon, tonight, and almost directly above the Moon on Friday), at WWS 243, but I'm not sure what it is (I cannot run Stellarium ).

Here is a sketch I drew this evening (solarised version)

Sunday 1st March 2009

and here a the pictures taken with my mobile phone (standard VGA, I'm afraid )

Sunday 1st March 2009

Friday 27th Febraury 2009

[Dave]

It's Venus

[Rosanella]

Thank you

[argonaut]

I managed another look at Venus tonight. Very majestic.

Glen.

[AlexG]

Rosanella

The bright object is Venus. If you look at the NASA site there is an article about it.

If you can steady your binos you should be able to see that it is a crescent Venus as well as a crescent moon - and it explains why Venus is amazingly bright at present despite only appearing as a crescent.

AG