Today:
Night owls can see the waning gibbous moon rise just about due southeast at 1:45 AM. As the moon then travels low in the southern sky, it will be well centered within the constellation Sagittarius, and within that part of Sagittarius know as the Teapot. The gathering dawn will bleach out the stars of the Teapot at around 5:15, but the Moon will remain visible unit it sets in the southwest at 9:45 AM.
Saturday:
Not only is Orion lowering into the west more and more with each passing evening, but the Milky Way is also dropping nearer the horizon. Its faint light makes it difficult to see near the horizon through the thicker part of the atmosphere, and it will remain obscure in the evenings until summer. For a summer preview, you can see the Milky Way rising in the wee hours of the morning, from 2 o’clock until dawn’s twilight.
Sunday:
The steely blue star rising in the north-northeast, low but due northeast at 9:45 PM, is Vega, from the German “Wega”, and from the Arabic “Al Wika”, the “swooping or diving eagle”. In modern times it is the brightest star in Lyra, the Lyre, a harp-like instrument, home to the meteor showers over the next few nights.