Straight up early in the month, the moon is full on the 8th, which unfortunately coincides with the peak night of the Centaurids meteor shower.
The moon then proceeds to last quarter on the 15th and is new again on the 22nd.
Early in the month, Both Jupiter and Venus will be visible in the west, during the early part of the evening. With Saturn and Mars rising later in the evenings, towards midnight. These planets will continue their dance around the skies this month.
Orion is very visible this month, so some awesome M42 opportunities will be able to be had, 1200mm is thinking of a stack for that one, through the scope on AstroCam 2 :)
The Seven Sisters (Pleiades/Matariki) is also hanging around and is stunning even through a small pair of binoculars.
The 1200mm crew is planning our first star party of 2012 on February 8 to attempt to pierce the full moon's glare and see some Centaurids from the meteor shower.
And finally, there's another small meteor shower (Gamma Normids) starting up on the 25th of February, that will peak in March.
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