About 9:00 PM around Dec 19, our old friend Orion is prominent in the Eastern
sky. Orion is a harbinger of winter and its cold weather, but remember
how clear the winter skies can be.
Taurus is a little higher in the sky, the home of the Taurid meteors, which
some of us saw
during our Leonid watch.
Taurus also includes M1, the Crab Nebula, the remnant of a
supernova that exploded in 1054
AD.
Saturn is still visible in the southern sky. A steady hand (or a
good support) will sometimes
allow you to glimpse the rings
with a pair of binoculars.
