The red planet Mars is worthy of attention this month as it both grows in brightness and gets easier to see after midnight.

A thin crescent moon appears low in the southwestern sky beginning next week.

Saturn and the Full Moon rise together tonight in the eastern sky. The two are in the zodiacal constellation Capricornus.

Tonight’s gibbous moon appears low in the southern sky near Antares, the brightest star in the zodiacal constellation Scorpius.

The time is right to be thinking of the Perseid Meteor shower, though usually it is more than a week away.