Today:
At 4 o’clock tomorrow morning, a little early for 4th of July celebrations, dedicated star gazers can celebrate the planet Mars sitting between the cluster of stars above known as the Pleiades, and the reddish star Aldebaran, below our reddish neighboring planet. To the Haudenosaunee, the Pleiades are called the Seven Starry dancers, while in Japan, they are known as Subaru.
Saturday:
The Waning Gibbous moon will rise in the east-southeast at 11:21 PM. After midnight the planet Saturn will rise at around 12:40, and will chase to Moon across the southeastern sky until Saturn gets bleached out by the gathering dawn at around 4:40 AM. The Moon will remain visible while continuing into the south, not setting in the west until well after dawn, at 10:49 AM.
Sunday:
High in the east-southeast at 10:30 are three bright stars which make up the Summer Triangle. The highest and brightest is Vega, lower and to the left is Deneb, and lowest and more toward the south is Altair. Altair comes from an Arabic word meaning the “flying or soaring eagle”.