Last night’s Moon and Venus was spectacular, looked like the bloody Death Star about to attack 
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With Chris Grayling at the helm 
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Nice, what did you use to take that picture?
Sounds decent for a starter scope
Google
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Sounds like a good plan. Download a good stargazer app, my favourite is stellarium but obvs there are others and it’s a great way to find your way around the universe.
Get thee to the Beautiful Things thread 
PASS IT ON: Quadrantid meteor shower peaks tonight into the predawn hours of Friday morning. Up to 40 meteors will be possible per hour! #MeteorShower #Space pic.twitter.com/UldqtXUY5L
— Mark Tarello (@mark_tarello) 3 January 2019
That’s not Venus. It’s the feckin’ Chinese Army driving their tanks round from the far side.
VB
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“…were the Tarantula Nebula closer, say 1,500 light-years distant like the local star forming Orion Nebula, it would take up half the sky.”. 
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Lunar eclipse early tomorrow morning, large red moon to be seen if the sky remains cloud free.
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https://clearoutside.com/forecast/50.7/-3.52
Might help with deciding whether to set the alarm for 4am or not 
Put your own latitude and strangeitude in
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Thanks 83% cloud cover in Kingston Surrey. Not happening.
72% here. I’ll keep snuggled on the sofa (Claire has got the lurgy, and is alternately coughing her guts up, boiling hot and therefore throwing the bedclothes over me, so I am roasting, or freezing so then she steals the bedclothes, etc etc etc…).
Crystal clear here but I can’t be arsed.
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I’m really glad it was cloudy here as I didn’t bother to get up for it.
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