August 2: With a little luck, you can 
see the waxing crescent moon in the 
early twilight sky, brightly shining Ve- 
nus is below it. 
August 3-4: The moon is to the right 
of Jupiter and Saturn on the 3rd, to 
their left on the 4th. 
August 9: The reddish star below the 
gibbous moon is Antares, in Scorpius. 
August 10: Mercury is in superior 
conjunction, in line with the sun and 
earth but beyond the sun and entering 
the evening sky. 
August 10-14: Look for the Perseid 
meteors any morning after 2:00 a.m. 
They will be best on the 12th, when you 
can see 50 or more shower meteors per 
hour, many of them bright, even burst- 
ing. Expect half as many on the morn- 
ings before and after this reliable 
shower, the most plentiful of the year 
for Northern Hemisphere viewers. 
August 23: Mars, climbing sharply 
into the sky after rising before dawn, 
passes below Pollux and Castor, the 
“twin” stars of Gemini. 
August 25-27: Venus passes below 
Saturn on the 25th, below Jupiter on 
the 27th, and then moves to the east 
(left) of both. The three planets will be 
exceptionally close to one another for 
several nights, but they set at about the 
end of evening twilight. 
August 26: The waning crescent 
moon joins Mars, Pollux, and Castor in 
the morning sky. Look before dawn. 
August 30-31, September 1: The 
early crescent moon passes above Sat- 
urn about 8:00 P.M., EST, on the 31st, 
above Jupiter five hours later, and 
above Venus during daylight on Sep- 
tember 1. 
September 6: Venus has been sepa- 
rating from Jupiter and Saturn, ap- 
proaching the star Spica. This evening 
it passes above and moves to the left 
(east) of Spica. Jupiter and Saturn, to 
the right of Venus, set in the twilight. 
September 10-13: Mercury, Venus, 
Jupiter, Saturn, and Pluto are all in the 
constellation Virgo, and the sun enters 
the constellation in a few more days. 
September 13: Tonight’s full moon is 
the harvest moon. 
Editor’s Note: The Celestial Events Sky 
Map in the July issue shows the evening 
constellations and stars for this month 
and gives the times for use. 
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