Photo of Shuttle Atlantis the night before launch in November 2009 by Heather Goss.

As if you need us to tell you, there’s not a whole lot to look up to see this week unless you want to get slapped around by snowflakes. In the meantime, those of you who still have power and internet can at least do a little remote viewing.

Update: Endeavour’s launch was scrubbed this morning due to weather; it’s been rescheduled for Monday morning at 4:14 a.m. This pushes SDO’s launch back as well, now Wednesday at 10:26 a.m.

Space Shuttle Launch: Shuttle Endeavour is scheduled to lift-off tomorrow Monday from Kennedy Space Center. It’s the fifth-to-last launch and, more importantly, the very last night launch of the shuttle. Night launches are a thing of beauty, and if we’re very, very lucky, the weather gods might even let us get a glimpse from right here in the mid-Atlantic. Endeavour will leave from KSC on a Northeast trajectory, taking it right up the Eastern Seaboard. Seeing the shuttle from D.C. (with the light and buildings, not to mention the weather) might be a stretch, but if you’re a little closer to the coast you may just see its rockets burning as it heads up to the International Space Station. Launch is scheduled for 4:39 4:14 a.m. (tip from an early morning launch viewer: keep your laptop on your bedstand and set an alarm for 4:20; go right back to sleep afterward). The STS-130 crew will be delivering a new section of the ISS, the Tranquility node, as well as a seven-windowed cupola; the crew will also perform three spacewalks. Watch the launch (as well as the spacewalks) at all the regular places — NASA TV, Spaceflightnow.com, Spacevidcast.com.