My apologies for being late with this post - I just woke up! The weather was a bit "iffy" for astronomical observing last night - there was a forecast for clouds for much of the evening, but several of us from our astronomy club took a chance and drove out to Custer Institute. We observed in between clouds for an hour or so, then the clouds thickened, and we stood around talking of things astronomical. After about 45 minutes, the clouds began to dissipate, and when they cleared it was a spectacular evening of observing! I stayed way longer than normal, and didn't get home until 3:30 AM after a drive of an hour and a half. I was wide awake, though, recharged from my night of contemplating and viewing the heavens with friends. You may want to click on this to see a larger version. Those are the Pleiades in the upper right corner of the image, and the streak in the lower right is probably an aircraft landing light, on a late night flight on its way to JFK.
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