Observation (2/17/11)

Yesterday night at 8 pm I went out to see the moon and the stars on my driveway. The moon was full up above in the east and it was very bright. It was cloudy but there were some empty spaces in the sky where you can see some stars and constellations. It was fairly bright so the stars were faint. I could see Orion and his belt in the south. Trying to draw out the "heavenly G" I could make out, from the east to south, Castor, Pollux, Procyon, Rigel, then up to Betelgeuse. Up above in the north, I could not make out any constellations, but there was a bright star where Auriga should be so I suspected that it was Capella.