Planets align tonight ?

[Detection]

Jupiter, Venus, Mercury and the crescent moon will align tonight in the western sky, seemingly drawing a line to the horizon. This will happen before the sun fully sets; a good viewing time is about 6 p.m.

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/53592458-78/jupiter-venus-planets-sky.html.csp

6pm where ?

[Crisp]

6pm where ?

Uranus!

[Dot Matrix]

They formed a beautiful sight last night. Caught this at dusk:

[ApuBo]

cool, and on my birthday :laugh:

[Jase]

Friend of mine took this yesterday:

[Detection]

Typical, the first cloudy night in weeks

[jdegree]

Uranus!

The map above shows the moon and Venus for the U.S. Midwest around 5 p.m. For sky watchers in the western states, the moon will be more directly above the planet and the two slightly farther apart. For European viewers, the the moon will lie almost directly to the right of the planet. The moon?s position with respect to Venus changes depending on your time zone, because it?s moving upward and to the east as it orbits the Earth.

The above was copied from the following that has more information.

http://astrobob.areavoices.com/2012/02/25/moon-and-planets-align-this-weekend-dont-miss-it/

[remixedcat]

it's gonna be a clear night here, but in the city we got lots of light pollution here :-(

[Seizure1990]

I can often see Venus clearly here in NYC, but the other two are harder to find.

[Dot Matrix]

Not quite a line, but close. Taken at around 6:15 PM.

[Hum]

The Anti-christ is born ! :woot:

[Detection]

Nope, still cloudy for the 3rd night running here, I did see what I thought was a bright star (Jupiter) near the moon a few nights before though so I haven't missed it completely

[Detection]

After the hottest day in about a year we got a clear sky with almost perfect alignment :D

(didn't realise there was supposed to be 4 planets aligning until I shot the video, maybe the 4th is the one above the moon in the photo ? )

http://youtu.be/eky2XGqkrjM

[Pikey]

I would think Mercury would be quite close to the horizon , since it's closest to the Sun , and relatively dim too.