Have you seen Jupiter tonight?

[cakeorwine]

Lovely view. Look at the moon and at about 7pm from it, you will see a bright light - and apparently that's Jupiter.

11 times the size of Earth and about 558 million miles away!!

Thanks op, I'm sat on my kitchen floor bathed in the moonlight looking at it in awe!

-4 outside but we can see Jupiter very clearly!

I've just taken another look with my binoculars. Fantastic. The moon looks amazing too. I can see so many details -craters, mountains etc. I feel I could reach out and touch it.

Me too!

Just made DS 24 step outside to look at Jupiter.

Thank you!

Thanks @cakeorwine I saw the bright star next to the Moon but didn't know it was Jupiter! Will look again tomorrow night, thanks again!

Yes it is so bright and clear! I happened to look outside to see how frosty it was and I couldn’t get over how bright and clear the sky was tonight

Too cloudy at the moment, but hoping I might get a look later if there’s a break in them.

There's a wonderful book called 'the skywatcher's year'. It's out of print as far as I know but I got a copy on ebay. My sister got it for my mum but her eyes couldn't adjust to the book then outside so I learned the constellations from the book and taught her. We lived on a farm in rural.Scotland in an area registered as a black sky area

Me, too! Really chuffed now I know! Thanks, OP.

Just been looking at it OP, beautiful, wish I had a telescope to zoom in

thanks OP, clearly visible with the naked eye. Stunning.

Yes I saw it and wondered what it was...so thank you OP, I now know 🙂

Same. It was incredible. I had to come inside after a while as my brain started to ache with the wonderment of what I was seeing.

Just had a look, biggest I've ever seen it. Looks especially stunning being so close to the moon in terms of line of sight.

Freezing outside but its worth seeing that.

I saw it at sunset near the moon. It was the only thing in the sky other than the moon so it was super bright and I whipped out my planets app. Someone posted a great telescope photo on the local Facebook 😊

I would love to carry on this conversation!!

But this video about where every atom in the universe comes from is mindblowing - and such a beautiful idea

We see it often where we live - absolutely beautiful! Also saw the rosette nebula and was amazed as it just looks like a pink star!

I get ridiculously excited every time I see the ISS. I stand in the garden waving.

It’s been brightly visible for about eight weeks at least, so to the PP who wanted to show her daughter, you’ve plenty to time yet to show her!

Cold clear nights are great for star gazing

I live in London so most nights all I see is a red glow. Luckily my folks live in proper 'dark skies' territory in the arse end of nowhere in SW Ireland so when I am out there I can wheel my telescope out, open a bottle of wine and marvel at the universe.

Realistically it is unlikely that we can see objects millions of miles away

NGL, I'm not at all sure that I'm going to take internet idiocy over the brain the size of a planet types like Hawking and the scientists at NASA. If the above is true then that's one HELL of a conspiracy. And an expensive one, considering the billions spent on space programmes over the years.

Thanks, OP. Saw Jupiter but didn't realise that it what it is.

Why do some people watch ignorant shit in YouTube when there's lots of good stuff? ^ "Realistically it is unlikely that we can see objects millions of miles away^" - no reason at all why not, there's bugger all in between to stop each photon on its path, it just takes time even at light speed!

Partly I think because they’re too undiscerning to tell the difference between content from credible scientists/astronomers with peer-reviewed research, attached to universities, space programmes, observatories etc, and bug-eyed maniacs gabbling about UFOs and people ‘lying to us’ from their bedrooms.

Is 'undiscerning' politespeak for 'thick'?