HELLO STAR WATCHERS - TRACE HERE!

THIS WEEK# PEGASUS AND SATURN JUMP ACROSS THE SKY TOGETHER!

HIT THE DARKNESS AT TEN PM ANY NIGHT THIS WEEK# AND LOOK EAST.

YOU SHOULD SEE THE BRIGHT DOT OF SATURN.

IF YOU HOLD OUT YOUR ARM, POINT AT# SATURN WITH YOUR PINKY, THEN STICK OUT YOUR INDEX FINGER - YOU SHOULD BE POINTING AT BRIGHT BLUE# ALGENIB - THE BASE OF THE GREAT SQUARE OF PEGASUS!

IF ALGENIB IS AT SIX, CLOCKWISE,# WE HAVE ALPHERATZ, SCHEAT, MARKAB.

- THEY FORM THE BODY# OF THE FLYING HORSE PEGASUS.

IT’S TOLD PEGASUS WAS BORN OF THE BLOOD# SPILT AS PERSEUS DECAPITATED MEDUSA.

LATER, THE WINGED STEED HELPED HERO BELLEROPHON# DEFEAT THE MONSTER CHIMERA.

TRULY STAR-WORTHY.

WITHIN PEGASUS ARE SEVERAL GALAXIES.# WITH BINOCULARS YOU CAN EVEN SPOT M15, A GRAVITATIONALLY BOUND BALL OF STARS.

ONE# OF THE OLDEST GLOBULAR CLUSTERS WE KNOW OF.

NEXT WEEK SATURN REACHES OPPOSITION!

TUNE IN TO STAR GAZERS LEARN WHAT THAT# MEANS AND KEEP LOOKIN’ UP!