Venus and Jupiter

[Eric Mc]

Now it's Venus and Jupiter putting on a show. At their closest tonight.

Edited to add picture -

Edited by Eric Mc on Tuesday 30th June 09:49

[Eric Mc]

Climb a hill

Or go upstairs.

You can see them fairly high in the sky from about 9.30 on.

[Eric Mc]

Sadly, cloud rolled in just at the wrong time last night here in North Hampshire. Typical.

[Eric Mc]

I did get to see them last night. In fact, I've been watching the pair of planets get closer and closer over the past few weeks - but the night of closest approach was cloudy. In a few weeks time, Venus will reverse its direction of motion and start heading back towards the sun. When it does that it will eventually pass close to Jupiter again so we should get a repeat performance - in reverse.