I was hoping for a family outing tonight at the Peak, but the satellite showed cloud cover quickly moving in for tomorrow's rain storm, so we cancelled. I stepped outside after sunset for a quick look at Venus through 8x56 binoculars. Six degrees below it was a bright point, flashing red and yellow, which I at first took for a jet, but it didn't move. It was Antares, flashing wildly as Sirius does in the low haze. Had a look at Mars.
If there is a break in the clouds tomorrow night I need to look at Venus again; Saturn is very close to it now, and I didn't notice it tonight.
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