Winter Wedneday #3 Winter Sky

The Challenge: Try to pick a cloudless night where you can observe plenty of stars. Observing the moon in the winter is a great nature study experience as well. Keep it simple and give it a try.

We don't have a cloudless night sky... in fact the entire month of February is generally spent under a canopy of gray and white. We grab quick glimpses of the sun peeking through a cloud once or twice a week. And yet there is much to be seen late in the evening on a cold winter night...



Here's what we saw to the north...


And to the south...


And the west...


and to the east.


Okay maybe not that much to see. But we still had fun being out in the forbidden hours in our Jammies.


We saw snow crystals atop our mounds.


I saw the rare Jo Bean's pearly whites.


And we had a jumping contest.

Then we headed into the warmth of our abode. We looked at Winter Sky Tour. Then we went to Space.com to check out the Sky Calendar unfortunately we couldn't find any info for February.

Then we watched Orion and Horsehead Nebula and Orion Jewel of Winter Night Sky and Winter's Night Sky

Then we watched Hubble's Amazing Rescue: Nova from Netflix. It was great watching Moca glued to the monitor as he watched the rocket blast off. I'm sure we will be hearing more "space" facts over the next few weeks.

I think we may take some time to make our own Hubble Telescope tomorrow, just for fun. Eventually we'll get a chance to see some stars in real life, but for now we had a good time.