Today:
At 7:50 PM you can see a faint cluster of stars called The Pleiades, or Seven Sisters, appearing a little less than halfway up in the east. To locate them more easily, you can first identify the bright and orange-red star Aldebaran, which appears due east, and then look farther up. In Japan The Pleiades are known as “Subaru” – yes, the same as the car – which means “to gather together”.
Friday:
At 5:30 AM tomorrow, early risers can see the Crescent Moon about a third of the way up in the southeast. Low in the east-southeast is the bright blue star Spica. If you connect an imaginary line between Spica and Moon, and then follow it high in the sky, it will next connect with another blueish star, Regulus, in the constellation Leo. Following the line yet higher leads to the brightly shining Jupiter, high in the southwest.
Saturday:
The eastern skies have gone to the dogs! Procyon, the star marking the Little Dog, is one of Orion’s hunting dogs, and rises at 9:30 PM. But the Great Dog comes into view a bit more than a half-hour later, as the star Sirius – the “Dog star” and the brightest star in the sky – rises at 10:00 PM EST.