Step out tonight (I'm writing this at 9 p.m.) and have a look at the
moon and Jupiter - both rising in the southeast! Look at their
positions tomorrow night too!
And since I have your attention :-) the Cassini Mission website has a
great feature written by Todd Barber, our Cassini Lead Propulsion
Engineer, who often operates one of out telescopes for sidewalk
astronomy in Pasadena. Todd spent last week at the Smithsonian Folk Life
Festival in Washington DC, and he shares some of this thoughts about the
event in a lovely "Insiders Cassini" piece. The recent pictures aren't
too shabby either!
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.cfm
Jane
Jane Houston Jones
Monrovia, CA
34.2048N 118.1732W, 637.0 feet
http://www.whiteoaks.com
Old Town Astronomers:
http://www.otastro.org