Today:
The nearly Full Moon rises out of the early evening dusk at around 5:45 PM. Rising with it, but not emerging, until about an hour later, is the constellation Leo, which appears just above the Moon. Of the stars in Leo, the one closest to the Moon is the Regulus, Leo’s brightest. The Moon and Leo will ride across the southern sky overnight, before setting in the morning twilight, as around 6:30.
Wednesday:
The brightest star in the sky, Sirius, sparkles in the south as twilight fades by 8 o’clock, sliding into the southwest through the course of the evening, one of the first stars out as twilight fades. Its brilliance is due, in part to its relative closeness, only 8.6 light years away, as well as putting out about 25 times more light than our Sun.
Thursday:
A total eclipse of the Full Moon will occur tonight, for the first time since November 8, 2022. The partial phase of the eclipse will occur after midnight, at 1:09 AM EDT on the 14th. The totality phase begins at 2:26 AM and ends at 3:32 AM; when the partial phase returns until the eclipse ends at 4:48 AM.