Scituate's Observatory & January's Night Sky

Scituate is very lucky to have a great Seagrave Memorial Observatory tucked away right on Peeptoad Road. http://www.theskyscrapers.org/. Visit them on a clear Saturday night between 7 and 9 pm.

http://www.seasky.org/astronomy/astronomy-calendar-2012.html

January 1-5 - Quadrantids Meteor Shower has up to 40 meteors per hour at its peak between January 3 & 4. The darkest skies of the first quarter moon are shortly after midnight and best for viewing away from city lights. Meteors will radiate from the constellation Bootes.

January 9 - the Full Moon will be directly opposite the Earth from the Sun and will be fully illuminated as seen from Earth. This phase occurs at 02:30 EST.

January 23 - the New Moon will be directly between the Earth and the Sun and will not be visible from Earth. This phase occurs at 02:39 EST.

I think the true gardener is a lover of his flowers, not a critic of them.
I think the true gardener is the reverent servant of Nature, not her truculent, wife-beating master.

I think the true gardener, the older he grows, should more and more develop a humble, grateful and uncertain spirit. ~Reginald Farrer, In a Yorkshire Garden, 1909