Today:
Planets will rise in the east tonight, but you’ll need to stay up late or get up early to see them. Saturn will rise almost due east at 1:15 AM, appearing in between the constellations Pisces and Cetus. By 3:15 Saturn will still be fairly low in the east-southeast. By then Mars will be rising in the east-northeast, already competing with the first glow of the dawn by 4:00 AM.
Friday:
Just as full darkness settles in by 10 o’clock, look due north and half way up in the sky to find Polaris, the North Star. Now look above it, and slightly to the left, where a pair of medium bright stars represent “north stars” from a bygone era. The brighter of the two is Kochab, the lesser Pherkad, together called the “guardians of the Pole Star
Saturday:
This evening the Waxing Gibbous Moon will rise in the southeast about an hour before sunset. As nearly-full Moons do in the summer, it will ride low across the southern sky overnight. And it has made another temporary friend. This time it’s the reddish star Antares, the brightest within Scorpio. Antares will appear above and to the right of the Moon, as the twilight fades.