As noted in the Syllabus, one component of your grade is a Sky Journal. You should have ten entries altogether when you submit your Sky Journal for grading, with each entry being about a page long, maybe longer. Completed Sky Journals are due at the end of Week 7.
What your Sky Journal should include
a hand-drawing of the scene you observed, indicating the relative brightness of the stars and other objects,
a description of roughly where you made your observation,
date and time of the observation,
location in the sky (e.g. facing southwest, just above the horizon).
Each entry should feature:
two constellations with their names (20 different constellations should be featured in the completed Journal),
names of each of the prominent stars in the featured constellations (any named star on the Luminous Star Finder should be named in your entry),
at least one planet (not counting Earth),
the Moon, including its phase, if present.
Right now, in mid-August, you can see Jupiter and Saturn shortly after dusk and well into the night. Mars should be easily spotted by midnight, and Venus is prominent in the early morning sky and visible until shortly after dawn.