The best astronomy this weekend isn't after sunset. Mornings, well before sunup, is ideal for looking for the celestial objects of our solar system.

Venus commands the best attention in the early morning. It is brilliant and higher in the eastern sky. This weekend, a thinning crescent moon also appears nearby. And since you've found these two, look for the brilliant Jupiter nearby. All three are in the early morning sky and together.

Venus is the brighter of the two planets.

Each morning ahead, the moon appears closer to the eastern horizon. New Moon is Thursday, so you've only got a few mornings of viewing ahead.

Evening Planets

If you are still looking for an evening planet, you've got Mars setting in the western sky after 10 p.m. That doesn't give you much time to find it low in the west.

Saturn will just make it, entering our evening sky. Saturn spent much of spring in the morning sky. It rises in the east just before midnight and it is in the zodiacal constellation Pisces. Though not as bright as the closer planets, Saturn is alone as the brightest celestial object rising in that area of the sky.