October 17

I guess someonstellations are just more popular that others are. I don't know why it should be, the Ophiuchus constellation seens to be very popular in October. On the 17th in 1604, Johannes Kepler, big shot astronomer, observed what has come to be referred as Kepler's Star in the Opiuchus constellation. While it wasn't a star that he saw, it used to be one. It was the last supernova to be observed in our comfy litttle galaxy the Milky Way.