Venus and Jupiter Sunday morning

[skysurfer]

This morning (Sunday, I know now it's early Monday morning in AU) at 4:30 o'clock (12:30 AEST) I went to the loo and it was already twilight (northern summer here) and saw Venus , Jupiter and Aldebaran through the window, so I took my 7d and took a quick shot of 1.5 sec throught the double glass window (hence the ghost near Venus).
Even the stars of the Bull's Head are visible (note: in NL all objects in the east are rotated about 90º clockwise in comparison to AU) on the photo.

Hours later at 9 in the morning I looked up all three with a small 8cm refractor and found all three !

http://skysurfer.eu/skypics4/large/venus-jupiter-20120722.jpg

[Suzy]

Very pretty, SkySurfer. :)
It all must look so gorgeous with Taurus & the Hyades & Pleiades. I really need to set my alarm clock and take a look soon.

[GrampianStars]

SS Definitely fab.....
I was getting my 1st look at M31 Andromeda mag 11.3 rising out of the mist at 4.00am +10deg.
Max at zenith for me is 11deg. was 4.50am....
Planets at Dawn with Orion and Betelguise rising Stunning :thumbsup:

[MattT]

+1 for the planets at dawn comment Rob.I was up at 5:30 this morning for Jupiter and Venus...just beautiful in a 100ED f9 frac> Venus a crescent still and Jupiter showed lots of bands and a few swirly bits, even got to use the 5mm Hyperion for the first time :eyepop: very nice too. Sky Surfer sounds like you should set up a scope in the loo :D...just next to it I mean.
Matt