Look at the moon right NOW to see planet Venus.

I saw it Couple days ago there was Venus and Jupiter visible

The other day I remember seeing the moon almost completely in eclipse and up to the left was a bright star and close to that star a bit higher was another. I told my mum about it, would that perhaps be Venus and Jupiter?

I kinda want to see this but I'm too lazy to get up. Is it pretty?

Why are so many planets visible and when will this reoccur?

By my calculations the planets will not be in exactly the same arrangement for millions of years. However, this does not exclude the possibility of similar arrangements being possible say, next year

noticed it on the way back from the gym, tempted to dig out my telescope to get a better look.

I might go out to see it tonight then.

More than likely, yes.
The moon in eclipse? You mean new moon? An eclipse is when the earth, sun and moon are in a line so the earth casts a shadow on the moon or vice versa.

A VERY crude image of saturn I got by putting my camera in front of my telescope lens:


It looks much clearer when looking through the 'scope with my eye!!!

omg great picture Why are there no stars in the picture around it?

Firstly because there are no stars visible to the naked eye in that particular direction - even through the telescope there's nothing there.

Secondly even if there were stars visible with the naked eye, the exposure on my camera is insufficient to pick them up. My camera is terrible with stars, it has a starry sky mode where the exposure can be increased to a minute, but even then I struggle to get more than a handful of stars visible - when in reality there are tens of thousands!