Observations 9/21, 9/22

9/21:  The moon tonight is a waxing gibbous, but by tomorrow night it should become a full moon, so it is very bright.  As a result of this, very few stars were visible.  In the west around 9:00 PM Venus and Mars were setting, but Venus was much brighter than Mars, so that was the only one I could see.  Jupiter was in the East at this time.  Jupiter rose shortly after the moon, since last night it was at opposition to the sun, and tomorrow night the moon should be at opposition.
9/22:  Tonight was a full moon, and at 9:30 it was approximately 5 degrees NE of Jupiter.  Venus set in the west around 9:00 PM.  In the West, one of the few stars I could see was Antares in a very faint Scorpius, and in the SW was the curved shape of Ophiuchus.

Observations 9/14

This morning at about 6:45 AM, Jupiter was in the West, and at 9:00 PM it was in the East.  At 8:20 PM Mars was about 26 degrees SE of the moon.  From my backyard at 9:00 PM I could see quite a lot in the clear skies.  Tonight the moon was a waxing crescent (tomorrow it should be 1st quarter), and approximately 7 degrees SE of the moon was Antares.  It had a slight reddish color, which made it easy to identify.  Scorpius was very close to the SW horizon.  In the North, I could see only the handle of the big dipper in Ursa Major, because the rest was covered by trees.  In the South, the teapot in Sagittarius was easy to spot to the left of the moon.  I found Hercules by its asterism, the keystone, which was almost directly above me.  The summer triangle was just to the left of Hercules.