Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Cancer, the crab, is well up in the east by the middle of the evening. Its most interesting object is a cluster of stars known as the Beehive cluster. To the unaided eye, under dark skies, it looks like a tiny smudge of light. Binoculars reveal a swarm of stars.

- Quads, hailing from Grand Marsh Observatory atop Elk Castle Hill