View anywhere in the dark skies between midnight and dawn, with perhaps one meteor every few minutes. The lunar crater Copernicus is prominent tonight near the center of the Moon s disk. Binoculars or telescope will reveal this crater to be tremendous hole carved out by an impacting asteroid long ago. 22 Moon near brilliant Venus and yellowish Saturn in the east at dawn. 19 Moon near Saturn all night in a spectacular close pairing.
Moon rises just before dawn.
23 New Moon is an excellent time to view the stars. Look for the Big Dipper high overhead. The two stars in the end of the dipper s bowl point directly to Polaris, the North Pole star. 14 Look for Jupiter near the moon on the 14th and 15th after midnight. Watch the moons for a few consecutive days, and notice how they move about Jupiter.