Star Gaze Hours: A Night at the Beach (in Venice)

General Location where Star Gaze occurred

On October, 5th, Carmen Carrion and I went out to the beach to view the stars for roughly 2 hours. During our Star Gaze, she and I noticed the constellations Cassiopeia, Delphinus (Job's Coffin), and Scorpio. Scorpio was relatively close to the moon at the time and as a consequence, the light from the moon made the stars seem dimmer despite the fact that the waning crescent was almost a New Moon. Brighter than all the stars in the constellation Scorpio, Antares included, was the planet Venus which sat about a quarter of the way through the constellation. To verify it was in fact the planet, I used my Iphone star app and pointed it in the general direction.