Anyone got clear sky today!?!

Hi Michael.

Weather forecast is mixed but you might see it with binoculars.

The exact time that the Moon passes in front of Venus will vary by up to 6 minutes depending on where you are located around Ireland. The Moon will pass in front of Venus from between 2:47pm and 2:53pm with those on the West coast seeing it earlier, and those in the East see it those few minutes later.

Starting around 2pm to 2:30pm, with the naked eye, look 45 degrees to the left of the Sun and about 10 degrees lower than the Sun and you should be able to see the thin crescent Moon (14% of its diameter will be sunlit). Now aim your binoculars at the Moon (being very careful never to look near the Sun!) and you should easily see Venus just to the lower left of the Moon in broad daylight with even the smallest binoculars. 10x50s are ideal. If it's a good clear day you should be able to see Venus with the naked eye next to the Moon! This will be a remarkable sight with the naked eye or binoculars . Best of luck to all good hunting.

Thanks Carl for the info.

Sun is doing its best to break through the clouds here in central Dublin and succeeding on occasions, hopefully we may just be lucky enough for long enough to view this celestial event!
If you check out the IOTA website “The International Occultation Timing Association” the timing it gives for the disappearance of Venus behind the Moon as viewed from Dublin is 13:52:56 (UT). For our northern friends located in the vicinity of Belfast the timing is 13:52:18 (UT). It will be interesting to correlate the predicted times of disappearance with actual calibrated time signals from ones location. Best of luck to everyone!

www.lunar-occultations.com/iota/planets/0618venus.htm

Clear skies (hopefully)
Mike

Still heavy cloud here, but it is a bit brighter than an hour ago.

It's cloudy here in Bray Co Wicklow, a few blue patches, but not in the right place yet

I need one hour to sketch the moon and a totaly clear sky for an
occultation sketch

Deirdre Kelleghan

Its cloudy here in Limerick, although I think you would have guessed that been only 12 miles from you, it supposed the brighten up later on, whatever that means, we'll see.

Oh no, it's getting much worse here now Not looking good at all now.