No, that’s Jupiter.  It wasn’t until I was in looking at my photos on the screen that I realized there was a star up there too.  So after some digging I found out it was Jupiter.

From Abrahm’s Planetarium Night Sky Notes:

Sunday, January 17, 2010
The thin crescent Moon is to the lower right of Jupiter. Look for the pair in the WSW at dusk. Jupiter is shining bright at -2nd magnitude. Neptune, at 8th magnitude, is to the lower left of the Moon, but requires a telescope to be seen.

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What the heck have I been doing the past 2 weeks since my last post.  Beats the heck outta me.  Sports haven’t started yet……..so it can’t be that.  It was hot and muggy the last two weekends, so I stayed inside and enjoyed the A/C.  Oh well, tonight I was graced with another beautiful sunset atop of Hickory Hill.  I wasn’t really paying that much attention tonight what I saw when it caught my eye was the under surfaces of the clouds just washed with an amazing array of pinks.  By the time I got out there though, the intensity had died down a bit.