The night sky is great for viewing at 9pm these days. So last night when we went to the members night at our "local" observatory, we had a treat of many of our well known constellations and asterisms, and it was all around a good night for looking up. The moon was bright--which makes it too bright for a good dark night, but it's nice to see the craters and moon's features through the big telescopes too.
The local observatory is more than an hour away, out of town a fair distance, but out of town from the other part of town. We would probably do better to just drive 30 miles out of town northward and looking at the dark starry night there.
More pumpkin, thanks in part to a restaurant nearby called Sweet Tomatoes that we sort of frequent. Pumpkin bisque, pumpkin cobbler, and pumpkin cocktails. I didn't mention because I'm sure all of you were up-to-date on the facebook status updates, but Bonnie also made some delicious pumpkin bread lately.
Just kidding about the pumpkin cocktails.
that moon was pretty blinding, if you were brave enough, you could look at it through the telescope and see the ejected material around the craters.
ReplyDeletei also liked looking at jupiter. can you imagine what it would be like to live on a planet with so many moons? you should write a kids book about that.