Today:
Near the top of the sky, slightly south in the evenings at 8:00 PM, a group of stars called the Seven Sisters can be found, though seeing them requires a little trick. Look slightly away from them and they will appear brighter – your eye is designed to be more sensitive to light away from the center of your vision.
Saturday:
This evening hosts a thin, waxing Crescent Moon well below Saturn in the southwest, lowering toward the horizon as twilight yields to the dark, mid-winter skies. The Moon sets before 7 o’clock, and Saturn about an hour later. Look for a slightly larger Moon to the left of Saturn tomorrow evening.
Sunday:
Tomorrow or Tuesday morning offer your best, last views of Mercury, as it starts to lower back into the Sun’s glare, best viewed from 6:25 to 6:40 AM, low in the southeast. Mercury’s swifter orbit takes it around and behind the Sun, though it won’t reach Superior Conjunction (directly behind the Sun) until the end of February.