If you step outside tonight you'll see a pretty first quarter moon. We'd love to be out with telescopes, but with all the wind damage in both Pasadena and Monrovia, we're cancelling both events this weekend. Our corner in Monrovia - the corner of Myrtle and Lime Streets - is strewn with the wreckage of huge fallen trees and is cordoned off with yellow tape. The big Deodar known as the "Christmas" Tree in Library Park was also a victim of the Santa Annas, uprooted, it's lying in a big mess of branches, lights, and the big star on top is bear the fountain. A huge tree gone. Now back to the moon. Take a look at the distance between the moon and Jupiter tonight. Look again tomorrow night. And look again on Sunday night. YOu'll see the moon appears closer to Jupiter every night! On December 5th and 6th the moon will be very near Jupiter. I wrote a little feature about it with some nice links. http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/whatsup-view.cfm?WUID=1004 Have a good and safe weekend. Jane -- Jane Houston Jones Monrovia, CA What's Up Podcast-November 2011 Mars launch, Planetary magnetospheres NASA podcast: http://is.gd/bSXeAl Youtube site: http://is.gd/kPUtSx Twitter: http://twitter.com/jhjones /CassiniSaturn /otastro My Blog: http://jane.whiteoaks.com/