Who needs a scope anyway?

[Stu]

Just stepped out of the office and looked up to see the crescent Moon, Venus and Jupiter shining brightly against a lovely blue twilight sky. I think I even said 'wow' quietly to myself .

Beautiful

Stu

[leemanley]

must admit I was getting quite emotional while packing all me tools away at 5pm !

[Pug]

It was a lovely sight!

[Hypernova]

An amazing sight it was too. I managed to haul myself downstairs and to the front door to check the weather and spotted Venus and the lovely crescent moon hanging low above some houses to my west. A nice bit of earthshine was apparent on the moon which made for a great view in the binoculars

[twotter]

I saw them as I left the office too. Got home at 18:30 and took my telescope straight outside. All three targets looked good though 13mm (x92 mag) was as high as I could go. Venus was a golden blurry disc, Jupiter was quite sharp and the Moon really filled the eyepiece. My 10 year old daughter came out too and gave her approval with a 'wow, dad'.

[iwatkins]

Indeed, great view.

Wife and I sat out for half an hour with a coffee and just looked.

Cheers

Ian

[Stu]

I know what you mean leemanley, it was pretty spectacular.

That must have been lovely twotter, nice when the little ones get it too

Stu

[paul schofield]

What a lovely site that was. Wonder what it will be like tonight ? Woke up this morning and Mars too was looking mighty fine at 04:40.

[Marcrosson]

It certainly was an amazing view last night, even just with the naked eye.

[Stu]

Should still be nice though they will not be nearly as close together as last night.

There will be a nice conjunction between the moon and Jupiter on 30th Jan so look out for that if its clear

Stu

[kris h]

Was a nice sight . got a few pics in the gaps of the fast moving

clouds .

[Jonny]

Looked like I was on a different planet when I saw that. 2 Planets and the moon all in the same area. All I needed was an orange landscape.

[iamjulian]

Have to admit I walked home looking up most of the way. Makes you want to stop people in the street and point it out to them as I bet the majority have no idea what they are seeing.

[Rakanishu]

Walking through the city center and seeing the planets in the sky above and I always want to point them out to people walking in the street seeing as most people dont have a clue or even look up at the sky.

[Stu]

Well Jupiter was looking very fine close to the moon earlier on. Scope out but seeing was quite dodgy and now it has clouded over