Observations

Date: 1/14/10

Location: Venice, Fl

Conditions: cloudy

Time: 8:30-9:00

Observations:

Mars: about 15 degrees ENE

Sirius: about 25 degrees high in the S, blue, extremely bright, twinkling

Procyon: about 25 degrees high in the East, twinkling a lot

Castor and Pollux: about 35 degrees high ENE

Capella: about 60 degrees NE

Algol: 75 degrees N

Mira: about 55 degrees SW

Orion: SE, about 50 degrees high, Betelgeuse and Rigel very bright

Aldebaran: about 70 degrees ESE

Great Square of Pegasus: 35 degrees high in the West, very bright,

Cassiopeia: could see the M of the constellation, a few other stars of the constellation, about 45 degrees NNW

Pleiades: straight up, very blue

Polaris: North, about 30 degrees, could see bottom stars of little dipper at about 10 degrees N

Could see tip of Phoenix in SSW

Cepheus: 30 degrees NNW

Perseus: about 70 degrees NNW, double cluster could be easily seen

Could see heads of Pisces and Cetus next to Great Square of Pegasus