Venus and Jupiter pair up in the morning sky. This is looking east at 04:45. Click for May 12 pairing.

If you can get outside before daylight tomorrow and for the next few days you can get a look at the nice Jupiter/Venus pairing in the east.  Before daylight means after about 04:30 and about 05:00.  If you go out at 05:30 like I did this morning it will be too light out (in the northern hemisphere at least).  Pity too because this morning they were pretty close together.  Given the topography here the planets might not clear the mountain in time for me to see them anyway.

The images give you a representation of what you will see. The picture shows this morning and if you click it you will get tomorrow.  You will notice they spread out a little and that trend will continue as the days go by.  Venus will be somewhat brighter than Jupiter and both will be the brightest thing in the east provided the sun isn’t up.

I’ve been good about getting outside between 03:00 and 03:40. This morning the sky was amazing, I spent my time looking at Sagittarius, Scorpio and Antares. They are low in my southern horizon if you are up and about at such hours you should get a good look at them.

I kind of like the My Favorite Astronomer theme, I have two.  I will share one tomorrow.