![]() ■ Higher above Venus now, the crescent Moon shines just a couple degrees from the Pleiades. Follow this line past the bowl's lip far across the sky, and you cruise to Capella. You probably know that the two stars forming the front of the Dipper's bowl (currently on top) are the Pointers they point to Polaris, currently to their left or lower left.Īnd, you may know that if you follow the curve of the Dipper's handle out and around by a little more than a Dipper length, you'll arc to Arcturus, now rising in the east.īut did you know that if you follow the Pointers backward the opposite way, you'll land in Leo?ĭraw a line diagonally across the Dipper's bowl from where the handle is attached, and continue far on, to go to Gemini.Īnd look at the two stars forming the open top of the Dipper's bowl. ■ The Big Dipper glitters softly high in the northeast these evenings, standing on its handle. The Moon on the 24th has just completed its daytime leapfrog past Venus. ![]() ■ The waxing crescent Moon hangs above Venus in the west this evening, as shown here.
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