First clear night in a long time!

I think I missed the supernova.

In other news, I'm going to hunt those lights that move across the sky from midnight to 2am or so....sometimes earlier though. They're just these dim white lights that are a fraction of the brightness of most really visible stars. Anyone who lives outside the city and away from lights should take a look.

In order to focus your eyes, keep the lights/computer dim up to the point of going outside, use a flashlight (preferably red flashlight) and lay out in one of your lawn chairs and look up! If cars pass by, close your eyes until they pass. All inside lights off.

Focus on the brightest stars first, then start working to more and more dim stars until you can barely see the lightest stars visible. Once you do this, focus on just a tiny bit of a brighter star (one you can focus on that isn't super faint, but faint enough).

Eventually you may see something pass by...it will be about as faint as the most faint visible star, or maybe just a tad brighter...in bad atmospheric conditions, I can hardly keep hold of the object and have to look just around the object to watch it travel. My first time, I saw 3 in about 2-3 hours. I'm just waiting on winter. If I see them in winter, they are definitely not satellites.

btw, these things don't flash, sparkle, change colors, etc. They are always white. No noise...they look to be rather high up, too.