Morning Star this Winter (and the blood red moon!)

Venus appears outside my window these clear winter mornings.  These photos are on different days at approximately 6:00 to 6:30 AM

This first image from Dec 5, 2018 includes a sliver of the moon  off to the east at the position of 7 o'clock with Venus, so to speak, at the center of a clock face

Later in early January, the sixth,  now Jupiter joins Venus, Jupiter here the slight dot at the position of 7 o'clock with Venus at the center of the clock face.

Earlier in the dawn of January 22 Jupiter's position changes to 5 o'clock on the clock face;   Jupiter now rises earlier than before and appears to be outracing Venus across our sky.

And finally you can see it on the morning of February 6.   Jupiter shows itself at 3 o'clock on the clock face:

 I don't think these pictures would have helped Kepler discover the laws of planetary motion.  On the other hand these relative positions in the sky of these two planets certainly caused the ancients to wonder about their power over human events.

And Finally: the sky wonder of the month, the blood red of the full eclipse of the Moon on January 20.     My phone foto makes it look like a tennis ball suspended in space and glowing softly red.   But this is how it looked overhead here at Wernersville at about 11:45 PM.   See some more exciting pictures on the Internet!