This morning I got up at 05:30 to do a spot of astronomy. It wasn't as bad as it sounds thanks to the hour change, so in BST it would be the more reasonable 06:30.
The light was rather beautiful and I had just a handful of early rising birds for company.
The reason for heading out into the cold was the conjunction in the morning eastern sky of Venus, Jupiter and Mars, making a clear and bright triangle:
There's a nice little gif identifying each and describing their motion to be found
here.
There's more space in London at the moment with a superb exhibition of early Soviet / Russian space technology in
"Cosmonauts" at the Science Museum:
It was all rather brilliant, with lots of fantastic real engineering, such as
Valentina Tereshkova's Vostok 6 capsule. The only downside was KGB levels of scrutiny to ensure that no photos were taken - apparently there were items on display that had to be specially declassified.
Well worth looking up in the night's sky if you have a cloud-free morning or visiting the Cosmonauts if you're in London.
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