The brilliant gibbous moon is moving its way into our morning sky. Each night ahead, you notice the moon rises later and later in the east.

This is great news for those of us who love to do deep sky observing. Without the moon in our night sky until later, the nights are darker. Without the moon, we have free reign to look for the Milky Way, look for shooting stars, and even better look at some of the faintest stars and celestial objects that are viewable.

July has plenty to see at night. The Milky Way spreads across the evening sky, starting in the northeast and extending south.

Have you seen the beautiful constellation Corona Borealis, or Northern Crown. It is a group of faint stars that are assembled in a half circle, just like a crown. They aren't brilliant, but we can think of them as being delicate jewels in a crown. The constellation is close to overhead at about 9 p.m.

It is located between the bright star Arcturus, that orange star that right now is high in the western sky, not far from the Northern Crown.

The stars in the constellation accidentally look like they are together. Astronomers have determined that their distance from the Earth is considerably varied.