Moon, Venus and the Lights Across the Lake 4/26/2020

   In yesterday's post I mentioned that the atmospheric conditions that make the city lights from Sheboygan and Manitowoc, Wisconsin visible from the east shore of Lake Michigan occur a couple of times per year.  That was based on the number of  times that I happen to view them while I drove to work over the past few years. But now that I live on the lake shore and have a relatively dark sky, it seems that the phenomena occurs much more frequently as I saw it two nights in a row.

    As we saw yesterday, the shape-shifting of the sun as it set made it apparent that some atmospheric shenanigans were at hand.  The two lingering bright stripes in the photo below were as bright as the sun had been as it was setting, but this photo was taken 3 minutes after the sun went down.

  The lead group of 40 Starlink launch 7 satellites made a dimmer passage at a lower elevation than they did on Friday.  

Starlink Satellites

Orion to the left, Taurus to the right, flanking the Moon and Venus

Orion and the Moon

The head of Taurus the Bull represented by the 'V', and the Pleiades

Moon and Venus just before they set.