The whole sky tonight
Hold this over your head with the top towards north. The bright thing you are wondering about is on it. If it is moving and blinking, that one is an aeroplane.
Doing the sums
The middle of the chart is straight overhead and the rim is the horizon. East is on the left because you are looking up. The chart keeps the shapes of star patterns true but stretches them towards the horizon. Stars are from the Yale Bright Star Catalogue, down to magnitude 5, sized by brightness and tinted by their measured colour in three steps. The Moon and planets are not to scale. Magnitude measures brightness, and a lower number means a brighter star. I leave out the stars’ own slow drift across the centuries and the bending of light near the horizon. Drag the chart sideways, or press the arrow keys on it, to move time.