APOD 3.1

2012 January 20
The Wolf's Moon

I saw the title of this and just had to choose it for this quarter's first APOD. Apparently, this moon gained its name when hungry wolves could be heard howling outside indian villages. Luckly the photographer taking this photo was not attacked by any wolves and we are free to enjoy the full orange moon on a snowy Swedish horizon. Every month has its own named full moon; Febuaray will give us the "Snow Moon", because it was at this time that snow happened to be most abundant. Only August has two named moons; one for the first (Sturgeon) and one for the thrity-first (Corn).

Quarter 2/ Observations #6

Jan.9,2012
7:00 P.M. - 8:00 P.M.

This morning's moon was full in the western horizon, meaning that at 7 P.M. the moon rising in the east was waning gibbous. Cancer sat below the moon and Gemini sat above it. Gemini is adjacent to Auriga so I saw that too. To the southwest I saw Jupiter, and since Jupiter currently rests in Aries I was able to find that as well. In the south/southeast I spent a great deal of time looking for Eridanus. I used Orion's belt to point out Taurus and find Eridanus right next to it. Finally in the west I saw Cepheus, Andromeda, and Triangulum.