Today:
The eastern skies have gone to the dogs! Procyon, the star marking the Little Dog, is one of Orion’s hunting dogs, and rises at 9:50 PM. But the Great Dog comes into view a bit more than a half-hour later, as the star Sirius – the “Dog star” and the brightest star in the night skies – rises at 10:20 PM EST.
Sunday:
Due east this evening at 6:50 PM will be a faint cluster of stars called the Pleiades or Seven Sisters. To see them easier, look slightly to their side (either one), and their faint light hits a more sensitive part of your eye. In Japan they are known as “Subaru” – yes, the same as the car – which means “to gather together”.
Monday:
Between 7:30 and 8 PM, look about halfway up in the northeastern sky. In the left hand of the constellation Perseus shines the binary star Algol. Between 7:14 and 9:14 PM, Algol reaches its minimum brightness, when the fainter of its 2 stars eclipses the brighter star.