That moment took place at 4:11 p.m. Eastern Time on Feb. 3 ... "before the dog", since it precedes the "Dog Star" Sirius as it travels across the sky due to the rotation of our Earth.

Directly due south you’ll find Sirius, the brightest star in the sky ... in the constellation of Taurus the Bull. High in the eastern sky, reddish Mars forms an ever-changing triangle with ...

It will rise around noontime and by 4 p.m. it will be visible well up in the eastern ... brightest star in the sky. However, back in January, Mars was nearly a match for Sirius, the brightest ...

Directly due south you’ll find Sirius, the brightest star in the sky. If you are away from city lights you’ll see the winter Milky Way stretching from the SSW horizon to the NNE horizon.