Waning moon and Jupiter

Friday, October 14th was cloudless, cool and lovely. Completely lacking in humidity, the atmosphere was clear and sharp with a myriad of stars shining in the night sky. This likeness of the rising, past-full moon and Jupiter was taken at about 9 pm facing east.


On this night, the moon and Jupiter were the brightest objects in the sky.  Here's a poem by Henry David Thoreau called "The Moon":


The full-orbed moon with unchanged ray
Mounts up the eastern sky,
Not doomed to these short nights for aye,
But shining steadily.

She does not wane, but my fortune,
Which her rays do not bless,
My wayward path declineth soon,
But she shines not the less.

And if she faintly glimmers here,
And paled is her light,
Yet alway in her proper sphere
She's mistress of the night.