Robert Geofroy

Astronomy has always been one of my favourite hobbies. I regret that much of my work nowadays takes me into the night period so that I rarely have time to devote to startgazing so I have to be contant with casual glances at the sky,  but one day I will! It is always good to know what you are looking at and to be able to tell an interesting story about the constellations and the stars. The ancient civilizations without all the modern aids that we have were able to.

As we move through this wonderful month of February and then into March, the Moon and Jupiter will be the first to pop out of the sunset. The link http://earthsky.org/tonight has some good comparisons of size.

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Before you go outdoors, read this http://earthsky.org/tag/tonight short summary of the interesting objects to view.  I also like:   http://amazing-space.stsci.edu/tonights_sky/

 

I could hardly better these commentaries.