Very bright 'star'

[davec170]

South-East you say? Sort of in the direction of Bethlehem? Considering the time of year and your great wisdom, I think you should follow it and see what happens!

As piratestorm and me were going up to Bristol yesterday morning we noticed that aswell.It was certainly a bright one

Oh well, that knocks my "three wise men" theory on the head then.

[Paul1566]

This looks pretty wizzy if your into your stars n stuff.....

http://www.stellarium.org/

[Vultch]

I used star walk

Uranus and Jupiter are pretty close together at a SE bearing, Neptune is a bit more south

[Albannach]

I forgot to change the time, I think!

Either that or I totally misread Starmap, but I think that's impossible, even for me...

Stellarium, which is the software I got with my Telescope (the one built by 3 year olds chained to their work stations) has Jupiter in the right place.

[Apache]

Have seen Venus before and I remember it looking whiter than this. This is very yellow in colour, and bigger than I remember Venus looking.

Get up at 5ish tomorrow and point your scope that way. Given it's brightness though, I expect it'll still be visible in the early phases of sunrise too.

[slobodan]

Get up at 5ish tomorrow and point your scope that way.

Will there be a sign on it?