"Laura Halliday" wrote in message
om...
I found myself wide awake at 0530 this morning, and
figured I might as well go out and have a look...

The sky is *just* starting to brighten about then,
so I didn't take my telescope out. Just my binoculars.

The sky was what you would get in the early evening
in January. The Pleides were putting on a great show,
due south. Orion was high in the southeast, with
Sirius sparkling below. Saturn was prominent in
the middle of Gemini, and I saw Jupiter through a
gap in the trees, right next to Regulus, my first
sighting since May. I know where Mercury would have
been, but my eastern horizon is not Mercury-friendly.

Sounds like a great cure for insomnia!

Clear Skies

Chuck Taylor
Do you observe the moon?
Try the Lunar Observing Group
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/lunar-observing/


Laura Halliday VE7LDH "Que les nuages soient notre
Grid: CN89mg pied a terre..."
ICBM: 49 16.05 N 122 56.92 W - Hospital/Shafte