You are going to love this!
If you want to get a little closer to your own backyard, using your areas longitude and latitude give Stellarium a try, you can download for free. Here is the skinny on Stellarium, according to their website.
Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope.
It is being used in planetarium projectors. Just set your coordinates and go.
Enjoy!