If you look to the east just now you may be able to see the moon and a bit to the right and a lot higher is Venus. (1pm BST)

Jupiter's there too, a bit further right again, but it's too bright to see it with the naked eye.

If you are using binoculars or a telescope, be very very careful to avoid looking at the sun, which is not hugely more to the right from Jupiter.

I've had a look (even took the compass to make sure I was looking east) but I can't see anything.

Lots of white clouds, which may be getting in the way.

I'm all white cloud too, Yogi. I did manage to catch a brief glimpse of the moon shortly after I posted.Lots of cloud around where Venus should have been and now there's no sign of anything because of all the white cloud.

Hopefully it'll clear up a bit later and you can bamboozle all the neighbours once more as you leap in and out pointing Mr. Yogi's iPad at the sky!

Guess who is going to be the talk of the steamie?

That mad woman up the road who leaps about in her jammies waving an iPod at the sky every night!

If you look SW (and your sky is clear enough) you will see that tonight the moon is above Bellatrix - Orion's left shoulder) with Venus and Jupiter further to our right.

Aldebaran is about the same level as Venus, but smaller and less bright.

Rigel (in Orion) is roughly straight down from Bellatrix and looking to the left, the next bright star (should be brighter than Rigel) is Sirius.

*goes to look*

This link gives you the location of the international space station.    It looks like a very bright star going over when you see it.

http://www.n2yo.com/?s=25544

Ooooh, lots of very bright planets!  Bellatrix?  Wasn't she is Harry Potter?  

Yes, but the star came first.

REALLY?!     

My sky is all overcast, Doesn't look like I'm going to be able to see a thing.

Can't see anything tonight from my garden tonight, not even the moon.

My sky cleared a little bit later to the extent that I saw the moon and Venus, but Jupiter had sunk by that time. There was one other object to be seen, but with nothing else to reference it against. it was hard to be sure which star from that general area it was. It was higher than the moon and to the right, but still left of Venus. It wasn't very bright. This could mean it was a lesser brightness star with all other stars hidden by varying degrees of hazyness, or it could be the brightest star in that area that was the only thing (other than the moon and Venus) in that area that was bright enough to pierce the haze, It was probably Capella, but could have been Elnath or Hassaleh.

The moon (fairly high)is in Gemini (SW), Venus is in Taurus (S by W) and Jupiter is in Aries (W).

Higher than the moon and a bit leftwards are two stars in a diagonal line. (Top right to bottom left) these are the twins Castor and Pollux that form the basis for Gemini. Castor is the upper one and is a bit less bright than Pollux.

Haha! Castor and Pollux are playing football with the moon!

It's hazy/overcast again tonight. The only thing I can see through my front window is Venus.

To the side I see the moon with a few, hardly discerable, stars nearby. Probably the stars that make up the waist and knees of Pollux.

Out the back I see Mars and Regulus (in Leo)

Farther round (leftwards) is Arcturus with a very faint Muphrid to the right. They are part of the constellation BOÖTES - The Herdsman.

I saw the moon and Mars (SEish)earlier, while it was still daylight. Now that it is dark it has totally clouded over. There is a vague fuzzyness that is the moon and absolutely nothing else - in any direction.

I saw a quite clear half moon at 5pm today

Yes, that's about the time I saw it too.

What I should have seen - in order of appearance - if the sky had been clear (and assuming nothing was obscuring the horizon) - looking out of my back window - SE.

The Moon

Mars - to the left of the moon

Procyon (in Canis Minor) - to the right of the moon

Regulus (in Leo) - to the right of Mars

Alphard (in Hydra) - below the moon

Algieba (in Leo) - above Mars

Denebola (in Leo) - lower and left of Mars

Zosma (in Leo) - higher and left of Mars

Gienah (in Corvus) - just above the horizon, almost straight down from Zosma.

Porrima (in Virgo) - a little higher and right of Gienah

Mizar (in Ursa Major) - very high and way round to the left

Muphrid (in Boötes) - down from Mizar, a bit higher than Porrima

Rho Puppis (in Puppis) - not too high and way round to the right

Vindemiatrix (in Virgo) - about the same height as Muphrid and right of it

Gomesia (in Canis Minor) - slightly higher and right of Procyon

Cor Caroli (in Canes Venatici) - right of Mizar and about the sama height as Denebola

Algorab (in Corvus) - left of Gienah and even nearer the horizon.

Ras Elased Australis (in Leo) - above Regulus and left of the moon

After that the stars pop up fairly rapidly:-

Saturn rises around 9 pm and Arcturus pops into sight shortly after. Another fairly bright star that pops into our vision around the same time as Arcturus is Alkaid (inUrsa Major), but it is much higher than Arcturus. Another of these 'look up til your head nearly falls off backwards' stars.

I just checked, and right in front of me is a star called Sirius

You must have been looking SW, The moon would still have been fairly high  and slightly yo the left. Orion would have been slightly to the right and quite low down. Procyon would have been slightly left of Sirius and about 2/3 of the distance to the moon.

Sirius is another very bright star, but it never rises terribly far.

It's also known as the Dog Star because it is the principal star in the constellation of Canis Major.

What is the "dog" star?

I didn't look out last night, looks like I missed a lot.

I'll be back out there tonight.

As I say, it is given that name because it is the principle star of the constellation Canis Major - 'Big Dog'

No, you missed very little if you had the same overcast sky as me.

That was just a list of what I SHOULD have seen if it had been clear taken from my software simulator and sticking to one view.

I'll be back out, in my jammies, as soon as it gets dark.

I've been out (front and back garden) and can only see the moon.

No other planets or constellations are visible in my bit of sky tonight.

Same here Yogi. A white luminous fuzzy bit where the moon should be....and nothing else.

Yep, that's what I'd see too, but I'd have to turn sideways to the house.

I should be seeing the moon as I look out of my back window.

All I see is wall to wall greyness!

I see the moon now, but it's still too light for anything else to show.

I can see the moon tonight.

If you don't look directly at the moon (it's very bright) and sort of squint a bit to the left and up a bit, you will see Mars.