In the month of August, if you take a gander into the western sky just after sunset, a triangle is being formed by Venus, Mars, and Saturn.  Tonight (31 July) they were in the configuration shown in the photo below.  Relative to Saturn and the stars, Venus and Mars are moving in the direction of the arrows and Venus, because of it's position, appears to move faster.  In the next few days, ie the evening of the 5th of August, the three planets will make a very close isosceles triangle.  Then, on 19/20 August, Venus and Mars will be very close with Venus right below Mars.  Moving on toward the end of the month, on the 31st, there should be a rather spectacular conjunction of Venus and Spica, both will be about to set at the time of their conjunction.

Learjet said:

Thanks, I shall try and remember to have a look.

Plus I need to get a DSLR to photograph stuff again.

Best of luck, it's been clear in the mornings here but the last two evenings have been less than ideal for viewing anything other than what's in my refrigerator :(

Nice capture, I like the illumination off the leaves.   I had to sort of tilt my head to get the recognizable configuration here, looks like Spica at the top as you go up from Mars?  Appears rotated about 70-75 degrees clockwise compared to how they appear here.

Cleared off late last night, around 2300, but they had all set by then and I wasn't able to see any of the aurora from the CME.  I think it may be better tonight or even tomorrow for that, although I'm not sure I'm at a high enough latitude.

How do you like the S5600?