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5. Hmm, you were determined. I've been looking for it after sunset for about 2 weeks
Tue Dec 22, 2020, 10:02 PM
Dec 2020

at least, it's always cloudy. Based on the forecasts last night, today (Tuesday) and Wednesday looked hopeless, but I was going to look anyway at around 530 pm, but forgot. It was about 700 pm when I thought of it, and went outside, not expecting to see it because it would have set by then.

But went out just to check the weather, and it was 80% cloudy all over but there were breaks in the clouds (I'm just to your east in Golden Valley). I saw the moon thru the clouds, so I figure I probably could have seen Jupiter through thin clouds if I had gotten out earlier. (Saturn would require almost perfect clearness to see that close to the horizon). But anyway, scratch another night.

This says Thursday is a good chance: Mostly clear at the 5pm and 6pm hours and clear at 7pm and later. 7pm is too late so the mostly clear will have to do.
https://weather.com/weather/hourbyhour/l/USMN0837:1:US

Map of the sky for a given time and location -
https://in-the-sky.org/skymap2.php

ETA: did you know the 7.5% AGI threshold for medical deductions has been made permanent (instead of reverting back to 10%)? It has.

The new stimulus deal includes 6 tax breaks that could help Americans, Yahoo Money, 12/22/20
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tax-breaks-in-the-new-coronavirus-stimulus-bill-205300030.html

Late edit 12/23 1230 AM Central time: Now that I think about it, I think way back in 2010 or so the medical deduction threshold shifted from 7.5% of AGI to 10% of AGI as one of the ways to pay for the ACA expenses like the premium subsidies. So I'm wondering with the shift back to 7.5%, if the ACA is being even more defunded.

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