Jupiter, Mars and Venus

[MarillionFan]

Bright and clear in the night sky tonight. Really strong red/hue on Mars earlier.

I believe it's possible to see all 5 this week.

Anyone know when Mercury is up as well?

[BrilloPad]

Where is Nibiru?

[mudskipper]

Bright and clear in the night sky tonight. Really strong red/hue on Mars earlier.

I believe it's possible to see all 5 this week.

Anyone know when Mercury is up as well?

Can you see Uranus?

[TimberWolf]

Bright and clear in the night sky tonight. Really strong red/hue on Mars earlier.

I believe it's possible to see all 5 this week.

Anyone know when Mercury is up as well?

Just after dusk I think. Been and gone for tonight.

Looks like Saturn is rising with the Moon soon.

Got Sky Maps or equivalent installed on your smart phone?

I keep trying to see how many stars I can see in the Great Square of Pegasus. Zero, is my highest total so far. Getting a bit low on the horizon by the time it gets dark enough now though.

[MarillionFan]

Can you see Uranus?

Send me the IP Address again.

[yetanotherbob]

Does anyone have a telescope? thinking of getting an amateur one.

[TimberWolf]

BBC2, be there, or be elsewhere.

[Cliphead]

Got this pic of Venus and Jupiter from the house the other week. In twilight with a jet contrail.

[OwlHoot]

Does anyone have a telescope? thinking of getting an amateur one.

I was thinking of buying some kick-ass 25 * 120 binoculars, like the Fujinon ; but they're about £8000 with the mount. (God knows what the 40 * 150 cost!)

Also I live in a basement flat in Central London, which doesn't help.

[Cliphead]

I was thinking of buying some kick-ass 25 * 120 binoculars, like the Fujinon ; but they're about £8000 with the mount. (God knows what the 40 * 150 cost!)

Also I live in a basement flat in Central London, which doesn't help.

Spend much less on a decent reflector, something you can pack in the boot of the car and get away from the light pollution. Some nice scopes sub £1k with motor drive mounts so no need to spend ages trying to get the thing aligned.

Biggest frustration with noobs to scopes is how hard it is to see something and keep it in the field of view. A decent equatorial mount will solve that. You need to be looking at planets, nebulae, galaxies, clusters etc rather than just pointing at random stars which will still just look like stars no matter how powerful the optics.

I'm starting to get great results using a Nikon D3000 + 75-300mm telephoto lens for astrophotography, just getting a starfield shot like I used to see in books as a kid is very rewarding.