The moon and Venus visit the 'Heart of the Lion' this week. Here's how to see it

A map of the night sky, where just over the roof of a red farmhouse is an orange circle enclosing a yellow labeled dot for the moon above a white dot labeled Venus which is above a smaller dot labeled Regulus.

Sometimes an unusual celestial sight will take place at a rather ungodly hour.

As a budding young amateur astronomer living in the Bronx, I remember the bemused look on my mother's face when I told her I was setting my alarm for 4 a.m. so that I could get a look at a meteor shower or lunar eclipse. "How come these things don't happen at a more convenient hour?" she would ask.