Today:
The Scorpion is making his usual predawn appearance as winter enters its final weeks. From 2:30 to 5:30 AM EDT, this “S”-shaped constellation climbs into the southeast, with its red star Antares due south at 6:00 AM, with its head and claws to the upper right, and body and tail curling like an “S” toward the horizon.
Tuesday:
The nearly Full Moon rises out of the early evening dusk at around 5:45 PM. Rising with it, but not emerging, until about an hour later, is the constellation Leo, which appears just above the Moon. Of the stars in Leo, the one closest to the Moon is the Regulus, Leo’s brightest. The Moon and Leo will ride across the southern sky overnight, before setting in the morning twilight, as around 6:30.
Wednesday:
The brightest star in the sky, Sirius, sparkles in the south as twilight fades by 8 o’clock, sliding into the southwest through the course of the evening, one of the first stars out as twilight fades. Its brilliance is due, in part to its relative closeness, only 8.6 light years away, as well as putting out about 25 times more light than our Sun.