Moon and Venus

[AleisterCrowley]

Worth a look - Venus at about 4 o'clock to moon (not that you can miss it)
Thought I could see a reddish star / planet closer at about 4 o'clock position. Where is Mars at the mo?

[kiloran]

Worth a look - Venus at about 4 o'clock to moon (not that you can miss it)
Thought I could see a reddish star / planet closer at about 4 o'clock position. Where is Mars at the mo?

Aldebaran?

https://www.heavens-above.com/skychart2 ... t=0&tz=GMT

--kiloran

[vrdiver]

Worth a look - Venus at about 4 o'clock to moon (not that you can miss it)
Thought I could see a reddish star / planet closer at about 4 o'clock position. Where is Mars at the mo?

Mars is round the other side of Earth at the time of your post; pretty much straight up if you happened to be in Adelaide!

Aldebaran is close to the moon, at about 8 O'clock, whilst Venus is in your 4 O'clock but 4 or 5 times further away and a bit lower down.

Orion's belt is (was at 10:35pm) roughly the same distance away as Venus from the moon, but over to the left, rather then the right where Venus was.

Sadly I'm not an astronomy guru, but I do have Stellarium on my PC which allows me to show the sky from any point on earth, at any time and date...

I also have the mobile version on my phone - a handy reference when gazing at the stars when out in the garden or walking the dog last thing in the evening.

VRD

[AleisterCrowley]

Thanks both, Aldebaran probably then- there was a copy /paste error in my post - the star was at about 9 o'clock to the moon.
Reminds me , I must check on Betelgeuse, which was dimming rapidly earlier in the year. It has obviously not gone supernova!