Spotting Antares, again!

Beautifully Clear Sky, with some random clouds.29C

The sky is so beautiful tonight! It's clear, it's bluish black, it's filled with stars! Even with the nearly-full moon so brightly hanging up there, and so much light pollution from the skyscrapers around, you can still see the stars clearly. I guess this must be the after-rain effect that Aulina mentioned in her poem.

And yes, I've spotted Antares again!

I totally didn't recognise it when I was looking out from my room's window at the mighty Jupiter. It was a bright, non-flickering star, so I figured that it must be one of the planets. So, I went to the interactive star chart on HK Space Museum's website to double check: (click to enlarge)


Viola! Not only did I prove myself right in spotting two planets (I still couldn't differentiate one planet from another) in the same sky tonight when I was taking the after-dinner stroll with Mum in the Racecourse, I have also found out that the bright red star right next to Jupiter was indeed Antares. (I actually saw it last year and read all about Jupiter being beside Antares... how could I have forgotten about it?!)

I'm going to tell Mum tomorrow morning that the really bright "thing" that we saw hanging over QE Stadium was Saturn, and the one on the other side was Jupiter and they are not satellites in the outer space!!! But I guess she'll just sneer at me even though she knows I'm right.

And seriously, I should get myself some more powerful binoculars. Using the small pair that I would bring to a concert or horse-race doesn't help much when it comes to identifying celestial bodies that are so far away. And if there are anyone from the buildings across or the flat up/downstairs accidentally saw me with my binoculars, they might think that I'm a pervert! >_<~