Today:
The star Capella is right on the northern horizon, due north at 10:15 PM EDT. While it is essentially not viewable, it never sets at our latitude. By midnight, it will be rising in the north-northeast. In six months from now, it will be almost exactly overhead during the bitter cold evenings of January.
Saturday:
At around 1:00 AM, the Moon will rise within the heart of Taurus, The Bull. As the morning twilight gathers, those of us in the eastern United States will be tantalized by a close encounter between the Moon and the Pleiades. At around 5:00 AM the Moon will begin an occultation of some the stars within that cluster, but this will soon get bleached out by the glare of the sun.
Sunday:
On this day in 1969, millions of people on the Earth watched as one man, Neil Armstrong, became the first person to visit the Moon. Tonight the Moon won’t rise until after midnight, doing so in the east-northeast at around 1:50 AM, and somewhat surrounded by 3:15, with Venus below, Aldebaran to the lower right, and Capella farther to its upper left.