Pine View Astronomy Night
March 4, 2006
1900-2100 hrs

Pine View access road behind the Astronomy classroom.

Weather: Cloudless sky with moon in its cressent form.

Objects viewed:
M objects: M1, M35, M36, M37, M38, M41, M44, M45
Saturn and its four moons: Rhea, Titan, Iapetus, Dione
Mercury
Pleides
Moon's surface features including: marias, double impact craters, craters
Constellations: Orion, Auriga, Taurus, Lepus, Columba, Canis Major, Canis Minor, Gemini, Ursa Major, Carina, Casseopia, Monoseros, Cancer
Stars: Polaris, Castor, Pollux, Rigel, Beteleguese, Bellatrix, Canopus, Capella, Procyon, Aldebren

Activities: During our observations we compared star clusters by number and by luminosity. M35 in the constellation Gemini was one of the brightes and most dense of the star clusters viewed.