Nightly Observations 3.3

For the past couple of weeks unfortunately, Astronomical viewing has been quite dismal. The sky has been quite cloudy and hard to distinguish objects in these conditions. However on a few occasions, it has been possible to view the sky adequately. Unfortunately of late there has not been too much of note to report, other than the usual clusters of stars that are always in the same general positions as this time of year. The Moon though, has been non-existent in the night sky at all until just recently, when it appeared again finally. It appeared as a very skinny crescent over the past weekend, and has since been waxing and growing in size and luminosity each night.