Louisville's Winter Skies
As we move into the winter months, longer nights and frigid temperatures mean perfect stargazing opportunities if you bundle up tight and bring the hot chocolate. The full moons during the winter have names which seems to describe the season; the Cold Moon, on December 2nd, signals the longest and darkest nights of the year; January's Wolf Moon is named for the packs that would gather around Native American villages looking for food at this time of the year; and the Snow Moon of February describes the month that usually saw the heaviest snowfall for the Native Americans. See http://louisville.edu/planetarium/sky.html for more about what awaits you in the sky, and at the planetarium, this winter season.
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