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  1. The museum closes at 4:30 pm due to weather. Be safe if you have to be on the road.
  2. The museum and planetarium are experience problems with the phone lines. Please be patient with us while it is getting fixed.
  3. Watch the first snowstorm with the KVM weather station - link: http://kvm.kvcc.edu/content/weather/Current_Vantage_Pro.htm
  4. The last quarter moon rises near midnight in Leo, the Lion. Evening stargazing will feature dark skies for the next two weeks.
  5. After Art Hop, stop by the planetarium to see the U2 laser show.
  6. The December full moon is far to the north, between the horns of Taurus while the sun is far to the south crossing the sky in only 10 hours.
  7. Happy Thanksgiving. The museum is closed today, but will be open on Friday from 9-5.
  8. RT @kzoojaycees: Congratulations goes out to @KalamazooMuseum for being our Business of the Month for October. Thanks so much for your help!
  9. A wide crescent moon passes over the brilliant planet Jupiter in the evening sky tonight. Both are in the constellation Capricornus.
  10. Eric returns to the console for U2 tonight, 8:30 in the planetarium.
  11. Who should the next laser light show feature? Led Zeppelin or Pink Floyd
  12. Busy working on rendering 3-D images for the winter stargazing program.
  13. The Leonid meteor shower is at its peak tonight. With no moonlight to interfere, these shooting stars should be easier to spot this year.
  14. The moon is new, so the sky will be dark all night long. If it is clear, begin looking for Leonid meteors around midnight.
  15. Eric will be at the console for U2 this Friday night.
  16. Tonight is the peak of the North Taurid Meteor shower. Keep your eyes open for shooting stars coming from the northeast. ,
  17. Mars is just beginning a retrograde loop, or reversal of its slow eastward motion in front of the distant stars.
  18. You may see up to a dozen shooting stars per hour if you watch in the early morning hours when Taurus is high in the sky.
  19. The waxing gibbous moon has moved into Taurus, near the Pleiades star cluster.
  20. Working on the winter stargazing program. All I'll say is lions, bears, and camelopardalis oh my.