This morning I awoke at 6am - I've been getting up early with the baby moving around inside me - but what a beautiful sky I witnessed in the pre-dawn hour. A slice of moon was hanging over our back yard view between the trees, joined by two bright planets - Jupiter and Venus. How lovely and brilliant at just that moment; as I returned to attempt a very rudimentary photograph, Venus was less visible, and by 6:30am the dawn had almost completely erased them from my sight. Needing to know more, I found this link http://www.space.com/spacewatch/041029_planet_duo.html and realized how rare this site was that I witnessed this morning. What a blessing to be awakened earlier these days to view such morning sky beauty.