I want to go to Maahs.

Hey, Mars is bright and beautiful in the Eastern sky tonight, despite the light pollution from Walmart and the searchlights from Applebee's. (Why searchlights? We can only guess it's to draw in the crowds heading for tonight's Pats-Bills game.)

Just for fun I went to Heavens-Above and printed out a sky map for our location: Now I'm going to run back outside and see what I can see. At least it's not snowing like it was yesterday.

By the way, Heavens-Above is a really cool free site with lots of astronomy data, particularly about a phenonemon called Iridium Flares. If you visit, use my link above, or make sure you include the hyphen in the URL. It's very important. Heavens Above without the hyphen used to take you to a site devoted to other heavenly bodies than the ones you'll find in the night sky. Right now it seems to return just a list of astrology sites. You can never be too careful though.