Observations Jan 11, 2012

                  My family went out to dinner and then went to the beach afterwards at night. It was neat to see the entire night time sky from a uninterrupted area of light. I was looking up at the stars and tried to identify some specific points. I noticed one object shining brighter than all the others. I assumed it was probably a planet. I thought maybe it was Venus because Venus is usually visible in the early evening sky. I looked it up on my phone and it was Jupiter. To the naked eye its hard to distinguish planet to planet unless I had known specific locations. Anyways I felt proud to be able to identify a planet from a star.