uber bright star. south west lowish

[leenewtoastro]

Travelling down the m6 at dusk and dam that's a bright star.

What is it? Altair?

[RobH]

If it's the south east, it'll be Sirius.

Venus is bright and low following the sun down though....south west to west.

[gdheib0430]

I second Sirius definitely a very bright star in the south east.

[leenewtoastro]

cant be sirius only just rising. ???

south west i meant too:o doh

[RobH]

That would have been Venus in that case.

Rob

[leenewtoastro]

thx rob, had a idea that the brightest things are planets but wasn't sure.

even more suprised it was venus i only thought the jupiter and saturn where ever that bright.

[RobH]

Venus can be visible in the day if you know where to look...it gets much brighter thasn any other planet....shame it's pretty featureless through a scope, apart from the phases.

[leenewtoastro]

can you edit the title to west for future searches please.

thx rob

[RobH]

Done

Rob

[Tinker1947]

Venus shows around 16:30 in the south west, then start to drop down...

[Ant]

Venus can be visible in the day if you know where to look...it gets much brighter thasn any other planet....shame it's pretty featureless through a scope, apart from the phases.

Agreed - but the phases are still excellent to watch develop over a few months...!

I got a sequence of images year before last.

Planets

Cheers

Ant

[Kai]

A good game to play is how early you can spot Venus naked eye