Jupiter, Mars and Venus

[Sysman]

I saw three of them at about 7pm last night. Venus and Jupiter are close together, and Mars. Venus is very bright[

Just seen them tonight. I thought Venus and Jupiter were one at first glance.

[MarillionFan]

I saw three of them at about 7pm last night. Venus and Jupiter are close together, and Mars. Venus is very bright.

My mate has got that SkyView app on his iphone, which is pretty cool.

I was using an app as well. Well cool.

[MarillionFan]

And it was foggy last night.

In fact, I suspect it'll be foggy tonight too.

Whenever there's some interesting astronomical event, it's foggy/cloudy/raining.

Well open the bathroom window then. It will soon clear.

[TimberWolf]

How to calibrate your arm with the big dipper: http://www.skythisweek.info/benchmarks.pdf

Which allows you to measure the angular distance of stuff with your arm, which in turn allows you to measure the distance and height of stuff.

[TimberWolf]

Even clearer skies tonight, apart from the odd cloud, and not so cold. Too late to try and count the stars in the Great Square, yet again.

This might be cool to try: Telling Time by the Big Dipper

[centurian]

Yep, Venus was incredibly bright last night. Also we missed the close conjunction, last night Jupiter was directly below Venus when drawing a line down to the horizon.