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 low in the north-northwest as twilight ends near 10 o’clock. The spin of the Earth swings it to due north, on the horizon, at 1 AM, and then edges up to a mirrored position in the north-northeast as twilight returns near 3:30 AM.
Wednesday:
June’s Full “Strawberry” Moon might not be red, but it will seeming chasing 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.
Thursday:
There might still be a hint of twilight along the west-northwest horizon by 9:45 this evening, as you look, about one eighth of the way above a low, level horizon, for a pair of stars. They rank among the brighter stars, and look so similar that you can see why they are “the Twins” – the twin stars of Gemini, representing the mythical twin brothers Pollux (on the left) and Castor (on the right).