Wednesday, March 30, 2022
Thursday March 31 to Thursday April 7
The New Moon is Friday April 1. Daylight Savings ends Sunday April 3. Mars is readily visible in the morning sky just above bright Venus with Saturn between. Over the week Saturn rises towards Mars and the pair are closest on the 5th. Jupiter is visible low in the twilight.
The New Moon is Friday April 1. Daylight Savings ends Sunday April 3.
Morning sky on Saturday April 2 as seen
from Adelaide at 6:33 am ACDST (60 minutes before sunrise). Venus and Mars form a line with Saturn close to Mars. Jupiter is low to the horizon. The inset shows the telescopic view of Venus at this time.
Similar views will be seen from the rest of Australia at the equivalent
local time (60 minutes before sunrise, click to embiggen). 
Elsewhere
in Australia will see a similar view at the equivalent
time (90 minutes after sunset).
Mercury is lost to view.
Venus is high in the morning twilight and is moving away from Mars. Venus forms a line with Mars and Saturn.
Star Map via Virtual sky. Use your mouse to scroll around and press 8 when your pointer is in the map to set to the current time.
Cloud cover predictions can be found at SkippySky.
Here is the near-real time satellite view of the clouds (day and night) http://satview.bom.gov.au/
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