Moon, Venus and Jupiter

[Royston]

Typical, this is just out of shot from my backgarden, but I managed to have a look through the window via my telescope, though this clearly muddies the view a bit. However, if it's a clear night where you are, have a look outside (towards the moon obviously)...

 

http://www.earthsky.org/radioshows/52786/moon-venus-jupiter-on-december-1

[Klaynos]

I nearly took a similar picture to that (and if I had my cam at uni would have done), but when I got home I ate and forgot instead

 

Very nice

[ajb]

They are quite low in the sky right now, which means bad viewing and very little time. I had a look using the naked eye and binoculars last night.

[DrP]

I once looked at Jupiter through our uni observatory - their telescope is massive and is housed in a rotating hut (No idea what the magnification was or anything - I was a guest of a member of the astromony society). It was really cool actually - you could see the red dot clearly, and I saw 6 of it's moons all lined perfectly to the right of it in a line.

[Jacques]

In Europe last night they had a LUNAR OCCULTATION OF VENUS

Take a look at today's spaceweather.com/ site (December 2nd) for more info.

There will be an other lunar occultation of venus visible from north america on 22 Apr 09

http://www.lunar-occultations.com/iota/planets/0422venus.htm

That's a very nice sight !

[npts2020]

Nice pic Jacques. Tonight was the first clear night here at sunset for a few days, so we finally got a good view. I can easily visualize some superstitious ancestor seeing two eyes glowering at him from the dark.

[Royston]

It was really cool actually - you could see the red dot clearly, and I saw 6 of it's moons all lined perfectly to the right of it in a line.

 

It was particularly good conditions last night, and I managed to make out 4 of the moons (I presume the Galilean moons) possibly 5, all aligned to the left. Just with my humble Tal-1, which only has a 110 mm aperture. I could just about make out some colour, but no details...there are better times for viewing Jupiter, but still very cool.