In the sky the other morning

[Deleted member 26715]

I was up at the field the other morning just before the sun was coming up, Tuesday I think it was, there was a small dot at the side of the moon. As I faced the moon in the East it was just to the right & slightly lower of it, I did try to take an image but it hasn't come out very well. TBH I thought it was redder than the image shows.

Anyone know what it is/was?

 

[I like Skol]

Saw this the other night, but it was to the lower left at around 7-8pm when I was looking. Asked the kids to look at it as I thought it was a cluster of lights and wondered if this was my dodgy old eyes or if maybe it was the international space station with sails out? Seemed to be keeping aligned with the moon which suggested orbiting the earth rather than a distant planet or other.... Must be a satellite or similar?

 

[Brandane]

 

[Ming the Merciless]

It was Mars

 

[Deleted member 26715]

It was Mars

Said I thought it looked more red than in the image

 

[Poacher]

Two (?) nights ago, Mars was occluded by the moon, i.e. went out of sight behind it, not long after moonrise. I remembered just half an hour or so too late.

 

[I like Skol]

It was Mars

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Silence you fool! I will distract them with suggestions of terrestrial objects while I prepare to launch an attack from the planet Mongo. The humans will suspect nothing, the imbeciles will be powerless

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Silence you fool! I will distract them with suggestions of terrestrial objects while I prepare to launch an attack from the planet Mongo. The humans will suspect nothing, the imbeciles will be powerless

Sssssh

 

[Deleted member 26715]

Two (?) nights ago, Mars was occluded by the moon, i.e. went out of sight behind it, not long after moonrise. I remembered just half an hour or so too late.

No, this was in the morning, looking at the image it was yesterday morning at 07:38

 

[Poacher]

No, this was in the morning, looking at the image it was yesterday morning at 07:38

Yes, I know it was! I'm just letting you know that a couple of evenings ago the moon was actually in front of Mars!

Edit: about 18:30, I'll look up the details tomorrow.

Edit 2: Looks like I got my timings wrong! Could've sworn it was just after moonrise, but apparently it was just before moonset yesterday.
Sorry!
https://in-the-sky.org/news.php?id=20221208_16_100

 

[stephec]

Here's what happened, Mars approached the moon on the lower left as you look at it, disappeared behind and then reappeared an hour later on the lower right hand side, there was no way I was getting my telescope out at that time in the morning though.

 

[fossyant]

Mars - I've seen a couple of pics on t'internet

 

[Deleted member 26715]

How long do I have to wait until it happens again, or have a I missed my chance to slaughter the goat?

 

[Jameshow]

Silence you fool! I will distract them with suggestions of terrestrial objects while I prepare to launch an attack from the planet Mongo. The humans will suspect nothing, the imbeciles will be powerless

When we attack we will land in England tonight as they will be blotto and heartbroken from the football...!

 

[Ming the Merciless]

How long do I have to wait until it happens again, or have a I missed my chance to slaughter the goat?

Have a look at the Jodrell bank website. There is a page that tells you what is visible when for each month.