Today:
While the nearly Full Moon bathes the night in moonlight from its path, very low over the southern horizon, look in the opposite direction, toward the north, for a curious object, even closer to the horizon. The star Capella, among the brightest stellar luminaries in the heavens, appears very low in the north-northwest as twilight ends near 9:45 PM. The spin of the Earth swings it to due north, on the horizon, at 11:30 AM, and then edges up to a mirrored position in the north-northeast as twilight returns near 1:45 AM.
Monday:
June’s Full “Strawberry” Moon might not be red, but it will seem to chase Antares across the sky, starting as darkness follows the twilight by 10 o’clock. While the Moon starts out low in the southeast, Antares is already a little higher in the south-southeast. Continuing across the southern sky through the night, June’s Full Moon will remain low in the sky, the opposite of the June Sun, whose path arcs high.
Tuesday:
Very early risers, or night owls, will have an interesting view in the east-northeast as the first of twilight blushes along the horizon from 3:15 to about 4 o’clock tomorrow morning. The pale red Mars continues to slowly emerge from the Sun’s glow, seen just below the Seven Sisters, or the Pleiades. Close to 4 o’clock, the reddish star Aldebaran peaks above the horizon, currently brighter than Mars, though both will disappear in the brightening dawn.