Jupiter & Venus Feb 24th to March 6th

[Thefatkitty]

Hey all, hope you're good

Last clear skies I've had (day or night) was Valentines day for the Sun. 10 days; I'm stressing... Tried for today; the skies were clear until a bit after 1PM. I left early hoping to get home and have some Solar viewing complete with some added Vitamin-D, but it was not to be

I took a look at Stellarium to see when the Moon would be up. I have a new Baader T-ring which I'm seriously wanting to try with my old orange C80. It just misses focus with my Vixen T-ring, and the Baader shaves off 8mm, so I'm hoping. The image quality probably won't be much different from my C80-HD, but I have to see. My AP consists of the Sun, Moon and some wide-field conjunctions between solar system objects. If I get focus on the Moon, everything else works. Much easier to focus on a crater than a sunspot.

OK, back on topic; I'm tired

I took a look at Stellarium for the next bit of time, and noticed this: From Feb. 24 to March 6th, Jupiter and Venus will be less than 5 degrees away from each other.
I'm sure space-related websites have mentioned this, but for me it was a happy Wow-look-at-that revelation


Feb 24th:

March 1st

March 6th

From my place on the planet, I'm at roughly 44/-79 degrees Lat/Long; which is north of Toronto, Canada. My best views will be at 7PM (dusk) before they both disappear over the western horizon.
I should go more north and camp out at Thunder Bay for this

If you do get a chance and have the location, it should be a nice view. They're both bright enough that I should even be able to see them both through the haze that has been non-stop here. I have a couple of wide-field 60mm scopes that fits all this in well; I'll try to get some pics; clouds probably included...

Hope your days/nights are clearer than mine, and all the best!

[Bigzmey]

Thanks for the heads up Mark! I will try for naked eye/bino view of conjunction on March 1.

[messier 111]

merci mon ami .

[Juno16]

Thanks Mark!
I will definitely try to put an eyeball on this pair!
I have to view threw some naked tree branches to the west, but I should still be able to see the bright pair.

[Lady Fraktor]

I was looking at this yesterday since the clouds disappeared for almost a hour.
A nice view of Venus/ Jupiter/ Luna

[Makuser]

Hi Mark. Thanks for the reminder of this great viewing event for the next few days. We have had some warmer sunny weather here for the last few days but the humidity is still high. The second problem is that it always seems to cloud up toward evening time. Hopefully, we can all get a break in the skies soon and view this wonderful close planetary and waxing crescent moon lineup.