[sleavelessinseattle]

I was watching Jack Horkheimer the star hustler last night and he actually pointed to galactic center of our Milky way...Antares the "heart" star of the constellation Scorpio.
I've been frustrated for years trying to find someone who could tell me which direction in the heavens our "core" is!
Also Sagitarius the Archer's arrow points right at Antares as a second reference and the spout of the Teapot Asterism is the arrow point. What he did NOT specify was whether the Star Anares is IN the milky way or more remote and just really bright...I believe he quoted 300 times the size of Sol.

[RightWhale]

Yep, Teapot it is. We can't see that from Fairbanks. Even Sirius is a little south of the horizon at its highest point, but Procyon is barely above. Antares is fairly bright and not so far from here. It's one of our neighbors inside the Milky Way.