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Jupiter is the brilliant planet a third of the way up the southern sky at 9 p.m. It moves westward as the sky turns and sets in the southwest at 1:30 a.m. The chart shows Jupiter and nearby constellations at 8:30 p.m. tonight. The red star below Jupiter is Antares, the brightest star in Scorpius, the Scorpion. Light takes 500 years to travel to Earth from Antares but only only 40 minutes to reach Earth from Jupiter.

Source: John Mosley, Griffith Observatory