Today:
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.
Sunday:
November’s Leonid meteor shower peaks tonight, but you’ll need to stay up late to see the peak, which will occur around 1:00 AM. The Leonid shower is so-called because its shooting stars give the impression of shooting outward from the constellation Leo, which appears in the northeastern sky. The shooting stars actually result from the comet Temple-Tuttle, over the next few nights.