Our Moon will be a 10–day old Quarter Moon, with plenty of details visible along the terminator. Bright planets Mars and Venus are also visible. If we look early enough with our scopes, we may be able to see Venus as a half-disk because its phase will be 67% from Earth.

Winter constellation Orion will be setting early in the West as it disappears from our night sky until Fall. It is being chased from the sky by Scorpius the scorpion, but that Summer constellation won't rise until after 1:00 AM.