Five Epsilons for the price of one, a Dipper full of stars, and
a crescent evening star: these are summer spectacles one should resolve to see.
If your skies were clear and you happened to look southeast Monday
evening soon after sunset, here's what you might have seen: The bright
crescent is the Moon, the brighter «
star» is Venus and the dimmer dot is Jupiter, here in a rare visible close conjunction (a church in my...