Venus & M45 April

Various weather websites for Dublin are suggesting we are due to have clear skies tonight Saturday 4th April.
So we might observe a continuation of the Venus - Pleiades conjunction.

Clear skies, everybody.

Aubrey.

Good news Aubrey, and Clear Outside is indicating 1% cloud cover from 20:00. ISS to pass over between 8 and 9 also. Here's hoping for the best

Excellent news, John.
I am still of the opinion that Venus has not yet completely cleared M45.
My scope is already set up.

John, I seem to simply look up, and I keep seeing the ISS accidentally quite regularly at the right time.

Clear skies, everyone.

Aubrey.

Hi Darren, yes it was like a 3D view, knowing that the Pleiades was much further away.

I see from the latest satellite that it may be clear until midnight or so for Ireland:

en.sat24.com/en

I use this regular to see what it is going to be like outside, you can switch to Infrared at night, lets hope for a good view tonight !

Keith.

I agree Aubrey, it's still very close. My sky isn't looking good tonight but I've just seen a pic from Eastern Europe where it's now dark and I have to say that tonight's view is compositionally more pleasing than last night's!
Good luck all!
Paul.

@Aubrey,
Getting set up now, not much chance of a polar alignment in daylight though, so I'm not sure how good tracking will be for photographs. Another worrying thing will be exposure times in a brightish sky. The position of Venus at the moment is shown in the pic below: