Tonight I am going to go to the  Bayerische Volkssternwarte München (an Observatory). Hopefully the clouds will stay away and I can view the Total Lunar Eclipse  :) 


I cannot believe it's already Wednesday; I suppose it was made possible by the holiday on Monday. This weekend a friend from our International Partner Project - Braunschweig is visiting. There are many planned festivities this weekend as it's Munich's birthday! (Stadtgründungsfest)


Looking forward to the pictures to come.




edit:

The moon was fairly low on the horizon and was covered by haze and alps. It poked through the clouds as it was filling back out and I was able to grab the picture above (using my new lens and cropping to 100%). The observatory was a lot of fun. They set up one of the large telescopes fixed on Saturn. It looked so small in the viewfinder, but all the rings were clearly visible. It was definitely humbling looking at the cosmos, and realizing just how small we are. The International Space Station streaked overhead, and we also saw an Iridium Flare (communications satelites whose panels reflect sunlight as they pass).

I love stargazing.