Today:
The star Capella is right on the northern horizon, due north at 11:45 PM EDT. While essentially not viewable right now, because it so low in the sky, 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.
Tuesday:
The second brightest star in the summer sky, Vega, appears nearly overhead at midnight. From the zenith, lower your focus into the east, still quite high, where another bright star catches your attention, Deneb, highlighting the tail feathers of the constellation Cygnus, The Swan.
Wednesday:
Tonight welcomes July’s full “Buck Moon.” Being just a month past the summer solstice, the Full Moon will arc low as it travels across the southern sky. In this way the Moon behavior is opposite that of the sun, with moon traveling low across the sky in the summer, and high during the winter.