Smiling Moon of Hope Shines down on Mumbai : Tonight December 1 2008

December 1st, 2008 – Venus, Jupiter and Moon form "smiley face"
In the last week in November and the first week of December 2008, the two brightest planets, Venus and Jupiter, will be close together in the evening sky, forming a spectacular double. The two are closest together on Monday December 1st, with Venus lying about 2 degrees to the South (left) of Jupiter. On the same night the Crescent Moon will appear just beneath them, forming a "Smiley Face".
 
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Thanks ceejo and yazak for the praise and information

There are some lovely pictures of the smiling moon taken from Thailand on this page;

http://teakdoor.com/the-teakdoor-lounge/40553-smiley-face-in-the-sky.html

Thanks for your picture : ) haha

I love sky watching!!  This is so beautiful, thanks for the preview. Can't wait to see it tonight in Canada, if the fog cover clears.

Amazing!

I took the liberty of adding your story to my Digg bookmarks to share it with others on the web, I hope that is OK.  It is just such a beautiful way of thinking of this event.  As a Christian I can't help but think about how our entire faith centered around another celestial event casting light on a human event (Christ's birth and the star of Bethlehem).  This story reminds me of that and it is such a lovely sentiment from the Heavens to the people of Mumbai and India, and the world.

Thank you so much for sharing this.

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A spectacular view indeed after a tragic event.

Well I went out for about 4 days in the row now to get this shot...I heard about this from a friend and first i really thought he was playing me, but it turned out to be true...It was an amazing feeling,couldn't stop looking at it for about 30 min..

hurricaneG has contributed a photo to this story.

It was a great sight seeing a smiley face in the sky.

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I loved the sight of the planets just before it became a smiley.  It's as if God is smiling on his people on the globe.

Kewl Scene......................

On my side of the world (South Africa) it's a sad face :(

Many thanks for the post, Ravi.

Here are freooguy's photos of the sight from western Australia.

I have added your pics and Blog post on my post here..

I thought It was only me who had seen such a beautiful event. Again thinking it was normal enough  but I may have seen first time. However when searching for the word Smiling moon I found many others including you having described the beautiful event.

http://www.nonstopmasti.info/2008/12/02/smiling-moon-seen-at-mumbai-and-across-the-world-on-1st-december-2008/

good morning great story and photos,it was a rare treat

Hopefully will get a chance to see this tonight in Vancouver!  This won't happen again until the year 2052:

I like it!

Hey! its seem like this moon this is all around asia! view my blog for better smilling moon picture... http://matt2001my.blogspot.com/  just sharing...

December 1, 2008
Venus, Jupiter, Crescent Moon Meet in Republic of Turkey.
For pictures:
http://kendihalinde.wordpress.com
and
http://galeri.sabah.com.tr/?galerisec=3306

I'm an amateur astronomer and photographer in Adelaide Australia. I heard/read that there would be a close conjunction of the Moon with two planets, Venus and Jupiter, in the evening of 1 December 2008. So I captured the scene with my Panasonic TZ15 point and shoot digital camera.  In some of my photos, you can see the "Earth-shine", Sunlight reflected off the Earth, on the part of the Moon that is in shadow.

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