M 103, NGC 457, NGC 7789 are open clusters of respectively 60, 80 and 40 stars.Cassiopeiae - Download chart - Five stars in a W shape.NGC 7662 (Blue snow ball Nebula) is a planetary nebula (ionized gas ejected by certain stars late in their life).M 31 (2,5 million light-years), visible to the naked eye, with M 32 and M 110 (elliptic galaxies).Almak also called Gamma Andromedae (optic double star, one blue, one yellow) with the blue being triple (difficult to see with average sky) !.Sirrah (Alpheratz), 110 times brighter than our Sun.M 33 (NGC 598) Spiral galaxy with inside NGC 604 Nebula (3 million light-years).M 74 (NGC 628) - Spiral galaxy of 100 billion stars (32 million light-years).The Winter Triangle (Sirius, Procyon, Betelgeuse) and the Winter Hexagon (Sirius, Procyon, Pollux, Capella, Aldebaran and Rigel).Mars will be low on the horizon towards the west.The constellation Gemini will rise by 20.00.Geminids are named as they appear to come from Gemini constellation. The Geminids are associated not with a comet but with an asteroid : the 3200 Phaethon ( NASA science). Geminids meteor shower - Its peak activity should be on December 13 - 14 after midnight.NEW - "What coud be seen" on Saturday the 13th between sunset and 11.00 pm Moon Atlas for Ipad via App Store - Easy to use with the telescope (but no information window compared to AtLun).Virtual Moon Atlas (AtLun) - Read - Free download (Mac, Linux, Windows).Sky Chart et SkyQ from Celestron for Ipad via App Store - Both recommended.Stellarium - Free download (Windows, Linux et Mac) - Highly recommended.Telescope Schmidt - Cassegrain CPC 1100.Pictures from Google Earth - Meeting point - Site.To be used with Google Earth - Download kmz file.
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