Star Tours

Although winter does not begin officially for two more weeks, the major constellations of the winter sky are visible after 9 p.m. Tonight the moon is in the middle of them. The bright star to the upper left of the moon is Capella in Auriga, and to the upper right of the moon is Aldebaran in Taurus. Orion is to the lower right of the moon and Gemini to the lower left. Sirius, the brightest star in the sky, is rising in the southeast, and Procyon is rising in the east. These constellations rise four minutes earlier each night.

Source: John Mosley, Griffith Observatory