Today:
The second brightest star in the summer sky, Vega, appears nearly overhead at midnight. From the zenith, lower your focus into the east, still quite high, where another bright star catches your attention, Deneb, highlighting the tail feathers of the constellation Cygnus, The Swan.
Thursday:
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.