Tuesday, December 22, 2020

Christmas Star on Winter Solstice....

 Sunset was around 5:33 PM yesterday where I live. This was the shot from the back yard after going out with Emily to lock up the chickens in the coop for the night (4 eggs a day from the ladies!). Cloudy.... I was thinking we might not be able to see the Christmas star - Saturn and Jupiter crossing each other last night.


I went out front to look about 6:15.... then ran inside and yelled to the kiddo's to come out of their rooms and see the star! Aidan came running and was so excited to see it. Someone else had their headphones on so got to see it a little after.


We had a Zoom girl scout meeting last night to do our Secret Santa exchange. When we were done, we had them log off then go outside to see the star! This was the photo around 7:15PM I think.  With all the things happening this year, it was nice to have the Universe gift us with this special Christmas Star this year.





6 comments:

scraphappy said...

So glad that you were able to see the planet align. We were able to drag all of the kids out as well and they enjoyed seeing it. I hope that you are finding some time to relax a bit over the break.

Chris said...

The sun set here at 4:45 last night.

Karen - Quilts...etc. said...

I didn't look for the "star" will it be out again today? We have so many trees that sometimes it is hard to see anything unless you walk a short distance from the house which is hard to do when it is about dark

The Joyful Quilter said...

Quilt Guild Zoom last night. Missed the celestial event. :o((

LIttle Penguin Quilts said...

We saw it, too! Could even use our binoculars to get a little bit clearer sighting. It was pretty neat! I've seen some really great photos taken with telescopes online today.

Quilter Kathy said...

How awesome that you could see it! We had complete cloud cover so we missed out :(