Today:
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.
Friday:
In the wee hours, at 2:45 tomorrow morning, Venus will break the horizon in the east-northeast. Venus is usually the brightest object in the night sky, apart from the Moon. But one of the brighter stars, Aldebaran, will rise just after Venus, and just below, at around around 3:00 AM.
Saturday:
Looking due south at 10:00 PM this evening, you will find the red star Antares, the brightest star in the summer constellation Scorpius, the Scorpion. Antares is usually considered the “heart” of the Scorpion. Note the general shape of this constellation is an “S”, a clue to remembering that you can S-ee the S-corpion in the S-outh in the S-ummer.