Tuesday, December 02, 2008

Smile, Sydney, smile!

Anyone else in Sydney get smiled upon last night?

No luck finding it at 9pm, which was supposedly the optimum time to witness the phenomenon. However, from a car approaching Penrith about half an hour later, and on a rather overcast and blustery Sydney night, we saw it very briefly when some clouds rolled back - but the face's right eye was winking!

Across Australia, the planets Venus and Jupiter were in formation with a three-day old crescent moon, appearing as a smiley face in the night sky. It will be another five years before the formation appears again. The phenomenon pictured here was taken by Yahoo! 7 user, Caroline, from Victoria.

Moon and planets

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

wow! Sydney was smiled upon too :)