Today:
Night owls can see a pale yellow point of light rising in the east-southeast at 2 o’clock, better seen after 3 AM, our distant planetary cousin, Saturn. Much closer, and much brighter as well as more intense in its yellow hue, Venus will rise about an hour later, well placed for viewing in the east-northeast from 3:45 to 4:45. Venus’ yellow will be no match for that of the rising sun, roughly an hour later.
Saturday:
Just as full darkness settles in by 10 o’clock, look due north and half way up in the sky to find Polaris, the North Star. Now look above it, and slightly to the left, where a pair of medium bright stars represent “north stars” from a bygone era. The brighter of the two is Kochab, the lesser Pherkad, together called the “guardians of the Pole Star”
Sunday:
This evening finds the Waxing Gibbous Moon trying to tip the scales of Libra. Looking on from the southeast is the red star Antares, within the constellation Scorpius. The two leftmost stars within Libra were once considered part neighboring Scorpius: Zubeneschamali, the Northern Claw, is the upper star; the lower one is Zubenelgenubi, the Southern Claw.