The night sky

It's been a very good couple of months.  Absolutely no one can have missed the conjunction of the Moon, Venus and Jupiter constantly changing places in the night sky. Both Mars and Saturn have joined them in their dance around the sky and at times this month 5 planets have been visible to the naked eye.

Here's a few pics I have taken..

Taken just a few nights ago, the crescent moon with Venus and Jupiter.  The three lights below the conjunction are a plane in flight as i had the shutter open for 2 seconds

The same shot on an instant take, no open shutter.  The plane has gone!

This shot is taken over the roof of the 'terrace'.  I like the moonshine on the roof.  The 'dot' above the very bright moon in the twelve o'clock position is Mars!

Here is a picture of March's full moon, known as the 'Worm moon'.  It's called this as the ground softens hastening the reappearance of the first earthworm casts and the return of the Robin.  Each full moon in each of the calendar months has it's own name, next months, April's, is the pink moon.  It's called this from the herb moss pink or wild ground phlox which is one of the earliest widespread flowers of the spring. May's moon is called the Flower moon....

This is a celestial picture i took in France recently.  There is  prize for the first person to succesfully post on here what it is of.....