Today:
Today is the “seventh day of the seventh Moon” – moons being months – and is the traditional day for cultures in the Far East to celebrate the story of the Goddess of Weaving and the Handsome Farmer, more familiar to us as the Summer Triangle, directly overhead shortly around 1:30 AM EDT.
Wednesday:
At around 12:20 AM, the Moon will rise in the east-southeast, within Pisces. By 12:40 Saturn will also have risen, doing so closer to due east. Whereas a few night before, Saturn was chasing the Moon across the southern sky during the wee hours, now their roles have reversed. But Saturn will still get obscured by the early twilight at around 5 AM, while the Moon remains visible before setting in the west-southwest, a little after 2 PM.
Thursday:
Just after the sun sets, you can spot Venus shining through the dusk, due west at 8:55 PM. By 9:45 Venus will be nearing the horizon. By this time the stars will be emerging, or trying to; Regulus, the brightest within Leo, will be hard to discern, trying to peer around the much brighter Venus, which will appear just one degree above it. Having neared each other in recent nights, the two are closest tonight, and will start slowly drifting apart hereafter.