A couple Space events for those of you interested in looking skyward:

First, there’s the Jupiter/Venus/Moon sky show happening in our morning sky: 

…these final days of January and the first days of February will be an exceptional time for predawn sky watchers with a beautiful pairing of the two brightest planets, Venus and Jupiter. They will appear closest together in the dawn sky of Friday, February 1, and a few mornings later, on Monday, February 4, the waning crescent moon will later drop by to join them.

http://www.space.com/spacewatch/080125-ns-moon-planets.html

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If the morning hours aren’t your thing, you can catch a glimpe of the International Space Station in the evening.  NASA’s Satellite Sightings page for Asheville lists all potential satellite sightings in our area, and it’s updated weekly.  Here’s the schedule for the next two days:

SATELLITE	LOCAL DATE/TIME	DURATION (MIN)	MAX ELEV (DEG)	APPROACH (DEG-DIR)	DEPARTURE (DEG-DIR)
ISS	Thu Jan 31/07:21 PM	2	17	14 above WNW	16 above N
ISS	Sat Feb 02/06:29 PM	3	19	16 above WNW	10 above NNE

and here’s the Help page, which describes what the above numbers mean and how to use them.

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