Thursday, October 09, 2008
Our Moon: Now showing every clear night
“Venus should be coming up soon,” Lois Altenburg said.
“There it is,” David Weinrich said, looking to the western sky that still glowed from the setting sun.
A large crowd of star seekers squinted their eyes but failed to see the planet until the sky darkened further.
Weinrich, MSUM’s planetarium director, is also a member of the FM Astronomy Club and has been coming to the Buffalo River State Park since 1984 to watch the night sky.
He has an eye for seeing constellations before anyone else. In fact, he recently won an award for identifying the most obscure systems in the sky among other members of the International Astronomers Club. Weinrich is in the running for president of the club.