Creston Night Sky
Summer solstice, shortest night June 21st at 4:28 AM Creston Time
Sunday July 11th - New Moon
July 18th - First Quarter Moon
July 25th - Full Moon
August 3rd - Last Quarter
August 9th - New Moon
July 10-19: Look for a line of planets in the west after sunset (right to left - Venus, Mars and Saturn)
July 14: Crescent moon near Venus
July 15: Moon is between and below Mars and Saturn near Virgo
July 30: Moon passes Jupiter in Pices
July 31: Mars passes Saturn in the evening sky
Early Aug: Planetary Trio
Mars passes less than a couple of degrees south of Saturn on Aug. 1 and Venus slides just over 3 degrees to the south nine days later; on Aug. 8, the three planets will form what Jean Meeus defines as a "trio," when three planets fit within a circle with a minimum diameter smaller than 5 degrees. These three worlds are all well out (46 to 50 degrees) from the sun but, unfortunately for the Northern Hemisphere, south of it and therefore rather low to the sunset horizon.
Aug. 12: Perseid Meteor Shower
One of the best known and most reliable of the annual meteor displays reaches maximum with no moonlight to interfere. Under dark, clear skies, a single observer might see as many as 90 meteors per hour. If you aim to catch one night sky event this summer, make it this one.
Planets:
Mercury – just visible now in Leo, sets shortly after sunset.
Venus – the really bright star in the West at sunset
Mars – Reddish coloured bright star, above Venus in the sky and close to Saturn
Saturn – will be near Spica and Mars in Virgo.
Jupiter – is a morning planet rising rising around 11:00pm only getting high enough to observe around 2 hours later.
The sky this month: July/August 2010
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