Date: January 2, 2008
Time: 11:00-1:00
Place: Fruitville Road (East of the Interstate)
Sky conditions: Somewhat cloudy
Planets: Mars (orange in color and bright)
Bright Stars: Sirius, Orion's Belt, Beetlejuice (Beetlejuice looks like Mars, except it is not as bright and it twinkles)
Constellations: Gemini, Lepus, Orion
Other: The Quadrantids meteor shower was going on; most of the meteors we saw were small and vanished quickly; there was one meteor with a huge tail, it varied in brightness and the tail stretched about 100 degrees in the sky, it was bright white
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