Venus and Jupiter .worth watching the sky tonight

[Toddy]

http://earthsky.org/tonight/watch-the-great-race-of-venus-and-jupiter-in-june-2015

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[Macaroon]

I've been looking forward to sitting atop the valley to witness this tonight, but unbelievably we've got a widespread covering of cloud over the past hour or so

I was up at 0400 this morning and have the same tomorrow, walk the dog a few hours then a double session at the gym, so I'm not taking any chances with the cloud, I'm off to sleep!

 

[British Red]

Venus is absolutely blazing here.

 

[21st century pict]

Its clear here right now, time 22.38 NE Scotland but its still to light, no stars visible yet but a lovely moon.

 

[petrochemicals]

Its clear here right now, time 22.38 NE Scotland but its still to light, no stars visible yet but a lovely moon.

Yup, same here, it's not dark enough before they sink beneath the horizon. I'll have to try somewhere with a downhill view. Thanks mary still time for tomorrow night!

Edit;

Actually they are visible and a lot higher than I thought they would be. Venus easily outshining jupitewr

 

[Toddy]

Beautiful huge moon and the West is full of heavy cloud

We'll hope for tomorrow

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[treadlightly]

There was a wonderful view of this here. I sat atop a hill with the sunset before me, the full moon rising at my back and then they appeared in the still quite light sky about WNW. Venus was very bright.

 

[santaman2000]

I've been looking forward to sitting atop the valley to witness this tonight, but unbelievably we've got a widespread covering of cloud over the past hour or so ....

Same here. Cloud cover obscuring the view.

 

[Draven]

Even on this very far away side of the country on the other side of the pond we had a lot of cloud cover - did get a brief chance to see it before the sky was completely dark, though. Amazes me how bright venus is right now!