This morning mega bright star

[DGU]

Hi

got up at 6 this morning to let the dog out and saw (looking south) a giant star and vey bright, was it Sirius? I normally see Sirius there on an evening so wasn't sure if it was that. I had a look through the telescope but it didn't look much different to what I could see from naked eye so again thought must be Sirius. Why did it look so huge?

[red dwalf]

properly Venus, about south east direction at that time in the morning, was very bright

[ronin]

If just to the left of the Moon = Saturn.

[kyokugaisha]

I reckon you were looking at Venus which rises in the south east at dawn. It's about magnitude -4.6 at the moment which would make it the brightest object up there apart from the sun and the moon.

[SnakeyJ]

Antares was almost due south at 6am this morning - slightly yellow/orange at low elevation, Saturn was also bright and higher to the SSW.    Venus would have been very prominent and low to the SE.

[DGU]

Oh was it Venus, coo!  Shame my view from the telescope wasn't that good.

It wasn't near the moon no. Saturn is on my to do list though.

Thanks.

[DGU]

Yes it was low, very very bright and look very large.

[Ant]

It'll be Venus.

Looked very bright to me the last few mornings as well

At 6am it's probably closer to SE rather than South though.

Ant

[ronin]

Just realised that Venus is running around as well.

[DGU]

I took this pic with my phone but doesn't do it justice

[Claire Dymond]

The sky was very beautiful this morning from my bedroom window, the very bright Venus rising in the south east and the moon to the south west, just a hint of blue in the sky and the birds singing loudly. I'm usually up earlier and see Mars, Saturn and Jupiter before they fade away.

[kerrylewis]

I was up with the scope this morning looking at Saturn, Mars and the moon. Nice to hear the birds too.

Then when Venus cleared the nearby roof tops I got that in the scope as a nice crescent. 

[Pig]

I managed to see all 3 this morning too, Venus was a perfect crescent

[wookie1965]

I saw the moon and Venus i got this of Venus from my mobile not very good but still its there.

[Tinker1947]

If you have Stellarium run the program and go back in time it will show what was on view, if you don't have Stellarium its Free from here.....  http://www.stellarium.org/

[kerrylewis]

I managed to see all 3 this morning too, Venus was a perfect crescent

Yes - there's no detail on Venus but I really love seeing the changing phase from a lovely thin crescent last month to the thicker version now and so on.

[kerrylewis]

Yes yes - I'm a 'Proto star' !

[Davide Simonetti]

Venus is extremely bright at that time in the morning. It took me by surprise the other day because it was so bright I thought it was an aircraft without port and starboard strobes - pity I was on my way to work so couldn't set up the scope

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[cotterless45]

Looked lovely this morning, a real line up, Mars, Moon, Saturn and Venus,

Nick.

[Pete Presland]

 Mars, Moon, Saturn and Venus do look excellent at the moment all lined up ready for observing.

[SnakeyJ]

Wonderful site this morning I got up at 3am and watched the planets and sun rise - seeing was pretty poor, but first time I've seen these three in one session.

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