Today:
Very high in the west-northwest, emerging from the fading twilight near 6:30 PM, sparkles the brilliant star Capella, the fourth brightest star that we can see. What we can’t see is that it is actually a pair of bright, giant stars, each more than twice as massive as the Sun. They orbit each other once every 104 days, no farther apart than the Sun and Venus.
Saturday:
Viewing is tricky, requiring a flat horizon, and probably binoculars, but this evening Venus and Saturn are very close together, very low in the west, and just after sunset, between roughly 6:30 and 6:50 PM. The much brighten Venus will be easier to spot, with Saturn barely above and to the left. Tomorrow evening, you’ll see the effects of Venus’s orbit, shifting to slightly higher than Saturn.
Sunday:
Daylight Savings Time begins today, as we move the clocks ahead one hour, making the sunrise and sunset an hour later. There is actually a connection to astronomy, as time used to be “local”, based on the Sun’s position being due south at noon. That changed in the 1800s, when trains needed a “standard” time system.