Look Up!

Tonight is the perfect night for looking up! Venus is so bright in the western sky that it's clearly visible at sunset. Orion is up in the eastern sky. The Seven Sisters (Pleiades) is clearly visible in the northern sky. The Southern Cross is low in the southern sky.

The sun will set at 8:18 and the moon will rise at 10:11. The air is warm, but not hot. There's a light breeze with no humidity and not a cloud in sight. So it's perfect for a night in the back garden on our banana loungers under the stars. What will happen? Satellites, for sure...Meteorites, maybe...

UPDATE: We saw dozens of satellites travelling through every part of the sky in every possible direction. No meteorites...but a bit of space junk came plunging from above and burned brightly overhead for several seconds. Also the ISS was visible for a long time as it came from the NW and continued across the sky until it disappeared in the SE. Venus was extremely bright, clearly visible before the sun's light disappeared from the sky. The moon was full and bright, rising just as we folded our loungers to return inside.