27 Dec
2011
27 Dec
'11
5:53 p.m.
I just spent 20 minutes in the deepening twilight in the backyard with the smartphone and SkEye. It's dead-on. No offset like Google Sky Map. I'm done with GSM. With the sky still bright, I found Altair, Fomalhaut (!) low in the south, Capella (easy), Vega (also easy), Deneb (fair), and, no lie, Polaris. The waxing crescent moon above Venus is incredibly beautiful. Jupiter high in the east calls to me to take a telescope out. After supper I just might do that. :-)