Made a brief astronomical observation during a nighttime power outage that affected most of our town & darkened our clear skies beyond the usual clarity. Glimpsing an unfamiliar fuzzy patch, I realized I must have seen the Coma Berenices cluster for the first time as the ancients knew it.

Well, this is an interesting time astronomically in more publicized ways, what with Mars rovers, a newly-discovered planet-like object in a strange orbit way out there, & a previously-unknown little asteroid making the closest terrestrial approach on record!