Watch the Moon Beat a Path Across the Hyades Tonight

"Once more, unto the breech..." Ready to brave the February cold and the ongoing arctic polar express? Tonight, North American skywatchers will witness an encore event, as the waxing gibbous Moon crosses the Hyades star cluster and - for a lucky few -- occults the bright star Aldebaran. This occultation is number 15 in a current series of 36 of Aldebaran by the Moon, running from January 29th, 2015 to September 12th, 2017. The Moon occults the bright star once for every lunation in 2016, though ...