Saturn can now be seen in Leo... Just under the triangular part at the lion's rear end. This is a nice thing to look at. After a few months this will be the only thing worth looking at in the sky if you don't have a 5" reflector. Perhaps even with that. Right now we see lots of stars in the sky because we can see the ring of milky way beyond the stars in Orion. Awesome constellation. After a few months, the sun will enter taurus and then gemini hiding the light of these stars in 'more' light.
I usually split the sky into 4 parts:
The Interesting part: far side of the milky way part with Orion as the outstanding constellation.
The somewhat empty part: The space beyond leo when we're looking at a direction perpendicular to the disk of the milky way (away from andromeda)
The really interesting part: The region beyond the summer triangle (Cygnus, Lyra, Aquilla) in the north extending all the way down to scorpious and saggitarius where we look at the thick of the milky way (right at the center.. wooot)
The hmmm part: the region beyond pegasus and all that where we look at the other direction perpendicular to the disk of the milkyway and oh we see M31 [Must be seen with a 5" reflector]
I saw a shooting star the day before. It had been almost an year since I saw one...
