A Rare Conjunction

I’m no amateur astronomer but on Monday night I couldn’t help but notice that things looked different in the western sky. Here’s a picture I took with my mobile ‘phone, click on it to see a larger version with more detail.

Pointing my mobile at the moon using the Google Sky app showed that object nearest to the moon is Venus and the feinter, but still very bright object lower in the sky is Jupiter. More detail here.