Local Sky Events

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• Perseid Meteor Shower is active from late July to late Aug. A full moon hampers the peak in the early hours of Aug 13, so look a few days prior.
• Jupiter will dominate the August sky at magnitude -2.3. Its 4 Galilean moons should be visible in binoculars. A telescope may show the great red spot.
• Saturn shines at magnitude 0.3 in eastern Sagittarius. The magnificent rings are open 24 degrees. A good telescope should reveal Titan, Saturn's large moon.
• Venus and Mars are lost in the glare of the Sun this month.
• Mercury rises about an hour before the Sun on the 3rd. It reaches its greatest elongation from the Sun on the 9th and is lost behind the Sun by the 26th.
• Moon: New Aug 1; First Qt Aug 7; Full Aug 15, last quarter Aug 23th.
• See our Links page - Sky Watching - for other events.
• See Sky and Telescope Magazine (This Week's Sky at a Glance) from our Links page for more events.