Dec's Guide to the Night Sky for Amateur Astromomers - including Melbourne weather

Its lovely to find a place to vent without cliques! or all the pettiness of social media. Thanks for the welcome from everyone I've found this a very useful and friendly forum and most of all a safe place to feel supported in my opinions already . Hopefully I can be of some use to others also once I get used to how to use it properly 🙂

That's great to hear @Ceres

good evening @utopia, @Owlunar, @Ceres, @outlander, @redheaded

cloudy up here tonight @Owlunar xx

That will be good @utopia xx

i will have to have another look outside too

Hi @utopia@Shaz51@Ceres@outlander@redheaded

I am starting this thread again - I didn't lose interest but I can see that I slowed down with this because I found walking around a hard chore with my wonky knee and could not be bothered going outside to see but things are getting interesting again

Early in the morning MARS and JUPITER are extremely close together right now - and they will start moving apart gradually - and this is easily visible early in the morning

Later than those two SATURN and MERCURY are close together too but nearer the sun and harder to find - I don't have a good "horizon" here but these to will be visible for a while

VENUS is too close to the sun until the end of February - and that will appear in the west

And @utopia - I know the cluster of stars called the Pleiades of the Seven Sisters - I will see if I can find a pic for you - they are easily visible in the early morning sky too

Dec

Hi @outlander

Yes - I have been a bit up and down and up and down lately - but okay most of the time -

I realise that my knee was wonky for a long time and who wants to get up and put their dressing-gown on and go outside early in the morning when they have a wonky knee - not matter how interesting it might be

Anyway - as there planets are apparently close together right now and with four of them it will be interesting for a while - I will be looking because I can walk better - and the walk I had at the beach was pleasant but heavier walking in the sand - but I did it

You are battling too - many people are - I certainly understand the Reason for the Season at Christmas but still - I get bothered when people walk around in an unpredictable manner - but one good thing is that the path leading to my front door is really neat and clean now - so I must be improving

And I came home to find the porch light that has not worked for years had been repaired - I can have that light on now which is really great

Take life as it comes Outlander - bitznpiecez - life can have it's tough times but then - you will find the better times when you get your balance - so much in your life has changed it will take time to get yourself back to - aw no - you will find your new normal and I am sure it will be better

You are a battler - and you see the truth - you do -

Dec

Hi @outlander@Shaz51@utopia

It was a brilliantly clear and starry night last night - at around 3,00 am I was outside thinking how wonderful the sky was

I could see Jupiter followed by Mars and then Scorpio with the star Antares so clearly and so brilliantly - it would have been so great to have had all of you out there with me

Dec