We’ve got mostly moonless nights ahead. The moon is a thin crescent low in the eastern sky before sunrise tomorrow morning. The New Moon is Sunday.

Pick any hour of the night to step outside and look skyward for a full view of the bright and faintest stars of late winter. In the early evening you’ll see the bright constellations of the night sky: Gemini, Taurus, Auriga and Taurus. The constellation Perseus is setting in the Northeast. The faint, cloudlike, Milky Way appears almost overhead. The cloud band extends from the southwest horizon, nearly overhead, and to the horizon in the northeast.

A thin crescent moon appears low in the southwestern sky early in the week and you’ll likely see it Tuesday night shortly after sunset, low in the southwest. The moon gains height and on Thursday appears near the bright planet Venus.