Tonight (6/17), tomorrow and Tuesday evenings around 10 o'clock, look to the western sky for a series of intriguing celestial sites. Brilliant Venus, Saturn, and the bright star Regulus are all in a row. Each night our crescent moon grows fatter and brighter as it moves among them.
The moon, tonight, is to the lower right of commanding Venus and close to the horizon. By tomorrow, the moon hangs between Venus and Saturn on this celestial string. Tuesday night finds the moon's crescent glowing less than one of its diameters away from Regulus, the brightest star in Leo. Binoculars help split these two very different objects.
Such is our view from Earth...
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