It seemed the Gods were against us when heavy clouds blocked the view on Monday night of the 'Christmas Star'.
The result of the 'Great Conjunction' of Jupiter and Saturn to create on big bright star, it was going to be visible to the naked eye for the first time in around 800 years after 4pm on Monday, December 21 - the winter solstice - until 6pm.
Then came the more regular occurrence of rain clouds and the celestial event took place out of sight.
However some wise men have pointed out that we'd all got too hung up on it taking place place on Monday when they are officially at conjunction and closest together.
To a large extent, the effect of them creating the one bright star will last for another couple of days.
Astronomer Dan Pye, who works at Kielder Observatory in Northumberland, said: "They are going to stay pretty close for the next couple nights, probably until Christmas Day when they are going to be moving significantly apart.
"Jupiter will gradually appear to move to the left of Saturn. From our perspective, Jupiter appears to have 'underlapped' Saturn in our skies.
"Although this close encounter seems just that, the two planets are actually separated by more than 730 million km of empty space.
"By Boxing Day I’ll no longer be able to get them in the same field of view in one of our telescopes."
The weather is still cloudy up until Christmas Day but with sunny intervals. And it also might be worth looking to the skies early in the morning, like Eileen Downs from Darlington did on Tuesday.
She said: "I looked this morning to see if the planets were visible and I was a little surprised that I could still see the conjunction. So I googled it to reassure myself that what I could see was the conjunction."
Her husband Richard took pictures of the Christmas Star which he shared with us.
Eileen added: "Although I’m not religious it prompted a thought of whether this was the star of wonder that is described in the Carol, 'We Three Kings'. Seeing it in that context was very uplifting whilst also humbling."
