Today:
The dark, moonless evenings feature the brightest section of the Milky Way in south-southwest near 10:00 PM. We are viewing into the heart of our galaxy, where the density of stars is estimated to be up to one million times more dense than our skies, 25 thousand light years from the center.
Saturday:
This evening the moon will sink in the west-southwest, and will remain just above the horizon at 8:50 PM. Prior to this, the gathering dusk will reveal the so-called Evening Star, Venus, hovering slightly above the Moon, into its left. The two are overseen by a true star, the pale-orange and bright Arcturus, which appears about halfway up.
Sunday:
Flanked to its upper-left by Spica, and to its right by Venus, a waxing Crescent Moon slides low above the horizon in the west-southwest this evening, with the tips of its horns nearly vertical. It thus appears that the Moon cannot “hold water”, and further gives us the weather saying, “when the Moon cannot hold water, expect rain.