Yellow Sky Orbs Before the Dawn

Photo date: December 4, 2015. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

The photo below shows two yellow orbs I photographed in the sky before the morning sunrise, along with a reddish-purple orb on the left.

In another spot that morning, I got a clearer example of a yellow sky orb. This was not the moon, which was only a half moon on this day, and was not visible when I took this.

There was no rain, fog, mist or precipitation on this night. The air quality listed on airnow.gov was "good," with a rating of 33 (anything below 50 is considered good).