"So now is a suitable time to see the gegenschein."

"Comets are scattered around the sky."

"Charles Messier lived some two hundred years ago in France,

from where he searched for comets, whenever he got the chance"

“Why stop with our moon? Show them Jupiter and Saturn and their moons too. A multi-moon evening.”

“We’ll know in two weeks, when communication with Mars resumes, if Martians have visited our rovers.”

“If you have a group of observers with you, take bets.  The winner gets to choose which will be the next object to observe.”

I'm a bit behind in reading my astronomy magazines. I just read that there will be a total solar eclipse on August 21, 2017. Did I miss it?

"Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Wow, who comes up with these names?"

"Nearly 90,000 days in one year, I wonder how many holidays they have?"

"It is there, but can you see it?"