Mars!

Wednesday, Aug. 27 is Mars Night at the Boston Museum of Science. The star party that evening sounds fun, up on the MoS garage roof, weather permitting. Would anyone like to come along? (This is extended to my northern friends whom I harrassed with cell phone calls, disrupting their Hannaford's expedition, the night I first noticed the very-bright Mars dangling next to the Moon, causing them to sacrifice valuable donut-buying time to go outside and look at it.)

(Thanks to magid for the link.)

Mars is seriously kicking some night-sky ass... I noticed that it (and it alone, among superterrestrial objects) managed to burn its light through the thick yellow haze over Boston tonight.