Saturn from Bloor West (Toronto)

Took Cam out for his birthday dinner. Good eats, wine, and discussion (as usual). He invited me over for a glass of wine after. So I dropped him off, drove home, and walked back to his place. The skies (it was around 11:30 or midnight) were clearing...

I enjoyed Orion, low, through the trees. Straight up was Gemini. I knew Saturn was in Leo and Leo was east of Gemini. I got a bead on a very bright object, a candidate. When I arrived at Cam's, I kicked him off his computer, fired up Your Sky, and saw that Saturn was indeed in Leo.

I suggested to Cam that I bring the 'scope over in the next few weeks so we all (the boys, particularly) could enjoy the ringed planet.

On the way home from Cam's, I did not retrace my footsteps; rather, I walked south on Drury first, so to take in the southern sky. Orion was very low, Gemini had shifted west, and Leo was now overhead. And nestled in The Sickle was Saturn, brighter than alpha Leo (which is Regulus).

The soccer field at Western Tech is definitely the darkest part of the neighbourhood...