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Originally Posted by glend
This seems to be a pretty spectactular meeting of these two planets. You will need to be outside at 4:30am looking east at around 30 degrees altitude. They will be separated by about 0.2 degrees and may easily be observed in a telescope field of view. Worth getting up for imho. For the planetary imaging guys, maybe it will still be dark enough then to grab a video file, worth a try.
This is the beginning of the 2018 planetary season, as they are finally getting into position for us to appreciate them again.  |
The closest approach is indeed 4:30 but it is UTC which is shortly after noon in Australia. But any decent telescope will show Mars on the daylight sky with the help of the much brighter Jupiter.
See Stellarium picture (from central NSW at 01:00 UTC == 12:00 AEDT). Closest approach.