Greetings sky spiers -- hopefully you ve been watching Saturn and Jupiter over the last week.

They re big and bright in the Southeastern sky and Saturn is at Opposition, meaning it s closest in its orbit and brightest from our perspective!

So much to see!

But since we re looking, why not turn up your sky experience a bit with binoculars!

Other than planets, one of my fav objects to spot with bi-nocs is M45: the Pleiades.

Head outside around 4am and face East to spy the Seven Sisters.

With the naked eye you can see MAYBE five, but with binoculars (especially on a tripod) they look a bit like a dipper, but don t mix them up with the little dipper asterism in Ursa Minor.

Try finding Aldeberan in Taurus directly below M45 -- it s in the Hyades cluster another star cluster just below the Pleiades!

Now you can too, while you keep lookin up!