Today:
If you’re an early riser, you can behold some other early risers at 3 AM tomorrow morning. Look to the east-northeast, and you can see Jupiter locking horns with Taurus, the Bull, seen to the left of the red star Aldebaran, the “eye” of Taurus, while the reddish Mars looks on from above to form a temporary triangle.
Saturday:
The Scorpion emerges from the twilight near 9:00 PM, near its best position of the year, with its tail curving down and left to the southern horizon, then curling back up to the stinger on the very end of its tail. Just right of due south, the star on the very end of the tail is Shaula, coming from the Arabic meaning “raised tail”.
Sunday:
Looking low above the southern horizon at 10 o’clock, the vapors of the Milky Way seem to steam upward, a nice connection to the teapot-shaped pattern, due south, the brighter stars of Sagittarius. Although imagined as a centaur with a bow and arrow, the triangular lid above the teapot, with a handle on the left and spout on the right is easier to see.