colors of the night
This one was well past dusk yesterday.
I had reached the top of the stairs above Francisco Park at a minute before 9 p.m., turned around, and saw this breathtaking scene of the sky in the west. Stopped immediately to snap these shots from the same vantage point (first horizontally, then vertically), making a mental note to ask one of Lyra Corvus* later for information on these brightest celestial objects in the sky above the Golden Gate Bridge and the Marin headlands.
Turns out that among those bright objects were the planetsJupiter and Mars! Amazing serendipity (for me) to see them all at once almost lined up like that, as these are prominently in the early evening sky at this time of year, in this hemisphere. I initially thought Venus would be one of them, but at this time of year, it would have already set below the horizon along with the sun -- at this time of year, Venus would be a 'morning star,' visible at dawn and shortly before sunrise.
The other bright stars are the twins Castor and Pollux, Regulus, and Capella. (All this info integrated from the various LLMs.)
* Lyra Corvus = my 'second brain' constellation of ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and Pi
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