Well, the night sky at the moment is plum full of action! Saturn's reign is coming to an end as it is setting around midnight. However, as it leaves us for quite some time, it has brought in just about all the rest. Jupiter is rising along with Neptune around 12:15 and shortly behind them, about an hour later, Uranus. Mars, Venus, and the moon complete the picture at 3:15am. What a party!

Ricardo and I were out from 11pm to 4am friday night (and saturday morning) and caught a lot of the action. Neptune was the only planet that proved too elusive for imaging with the relatively small 5" aperture of the telescope. No worries though, at almost 4.5 trillon km (2.7 miles), 30 times further from the sun than earth, i'm sure you'll all forgive me. As for the others, enjoy! We'll work our way, in ascending order of coolness.

I'm pretty psyched that I've now caught a glimpse of all the planets but Mercury. In addition to seeing so many planets, we also got visits from three different police officers scoping the area! Two were interested enough to sneak a peak of Jupiter.