CROSS your fingers for clear skies this coming Friday night (March 3) because we are having another of our hugely popular Moon Watch nights at Kendal's Brewery Arts Centre, writes STUART ATKINSON.
As I write this the forecast isn't very good, but they can change overnight, so if you can see the Moon at or after 6.30pm on Friday night then come down to the Brewery, where we'll have our telescopes set out in the garden.
What will you see? Well, the Moon will be just short of First Quarter, which is the very best time to look at it through a telescope because that's when the Moon's jagged mountains and deep craters stand out from the surface most clearly. On Friday night we'll have a spectacular view of some of the Moon's most famous features - weather permitting!
If you come good and early, before it drops behind the trees, we should also be able to show you Venus through our telescopes - looking like a beautiful thin crescent - and the planets Mars and Uranus too, although they'll just look like tiny stars.
Unfortunately, the Space Station won't be putting in an appearance during our Moon Watch, but we should see a few other satellites drifting across the sky.
The event is free, begins at 6.30pm, and will end around 9pm.
Stuart Atkinson
Eddington Astronomical Society of Kendal
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