Jupiter Shines on Winston-Salem

It has been really intriguing to watch the brightness of an unusually-close planet Jupiter as it rises in the eastern sky of late. I first noticed it a couple of weeks ago as I was sitting on the upstairs porch looking out at the city skyline one evening. A very bright star was announcing itself just to the left of the Wachovia Center tower at the southern end of the downtown area, and I used the remarkable Google Sky app on my Droid phone to determine what it was. As the evening progressed, the position of Jupiter changed and appeared to rise up directly above the skyscraper and eventually move on above the southern sky.



In this picture, you can see it very near the middle of the photograph, above and slightly right of center over the Wachovia building.