Observations 2.1

Pine View School (4 hours)
The night of the observation had a lot of clouds and so it was more difficult to observe objects then usual. Although there was less time to observe than usual, I got to observe more celestial objects because there were only 2 other people that showed up to the observation. I got to see Capricorn, Jupiter and its four biggest moons, a Satellite headed north west, 2 more objects, which may have been satellites, moving to the east very close to each other, Casseopia, the Great Square of Pegasus, the Pleaties cluster both with the naked eye and through a telescope, tauros, fomalhaut and piscis austrinus, the summer triangle, Alberio(a double star), M15 which is in Pegasus, Hyades, the Belt of Orion, Andromeda, and NGC 884 which contained lots of stars.

APOD 2.4

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap091123.html

This article interested me because it talks about a spacecraft built by ESA to land on a comet known as Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The spacecraft is called Rosetta Spacecraft and it plans to land on this comet in the year 2014. Also, last year, the spacecraft passed the asteroid, 2867 Steins and next year, it is expected to pass the egnimatic asteroid 21 Lutetia whose composition has puzzled astronomers.