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your guide to constellations deep-sky

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objects planets and events tonight's sky

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after sunset Mars and Saturn dipped

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toward the western horizon watch Saturn

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dance ever closer to Mars as the month

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on the evening of August thirty-first

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look for a lovely triple conjunction as

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Mars Saturn and the crescent moon share

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stargazing on a hot August night reveals

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a multitude of wonders in the summer

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night sky Lyra the small harp lies high

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in the late evening sky its main star is

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the great Vega one of the brightest in

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the sky look for lehre by locating Vega

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and then the parallelogram of stars

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nearby epsilon lorae the bright star

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near Vega is actually a wonderful

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quadruple star system known as the

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in the parallelogram of lira lies the

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dramatic ring nebula it is an expanding

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shell of glowing gas expelled by the

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the great constellation Cygnus the Swan

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flies high through the August night

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using bright Vega as your guide star

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look for the cross just to the east

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Cygnus is also known as the northern

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cross Albireo at the head of the Swan is

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a showpiece for small telescopes this

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spectacular pair of stars features

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contrasting colors of sapphire and

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golden topaz Deneb the Swans tail is a

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supergiant star if Deneb replaced the

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Sun in the center of our solar system it

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would engulf Mercury and Venus on a

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clear night hazy patches of nebulae can

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be seen by casually panning across the

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the most prominent is the North American

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nebula an area of gas and dust

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illuminated by the nearby brilliant star

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cygnus also hosts several clusters of

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stars the easiest to find RM 29 and m39

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m29 is found near the center of the

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northern cross when viewed in a small

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telescope it resembles a small square

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best seen in binoculars m39 is a loosely

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bound cluster of about thirty stars just

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just south of Cygnus lies the small

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constellation vulpecula the little fox

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first charted by polish astronomer

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vulpecula hosts the dumbbell nebula

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which can be seen as a faint smudge in

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binoculars a small telescope reveals its

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aquila the eagle was known to the

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ancient Greeks as the great bird of Zeus

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Altair the brightest star in Aquila is

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the bright stars of the summer night sky

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Vega Altair and Deneb make up the summer

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triangle use binoculars to look for the

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coat hanger located halfway between

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this remarkable little group of stars

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forms a familiar pattern from our point

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during the middle of the month Venus and

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Jupiter hovered together above the

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eastern horizon gracing the early

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a telescope will provide a better view

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Venus and Jupiter experienced an

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extremely close conjunction on August

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eighteenth look for the tight pair in

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the perseid meteor shower is an always

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anticipated feature of the August night

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however this year's show may be impeded

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by the bright moon look for meteors

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during the early morning hours of August

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twelfth and thirteenth these streaks of

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light are tiny bits of a comet burning

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up as they enter Earth's atmosphere the

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cometary debris trail through which

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Earth passes once a year was left behind

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by comet swift-tuttle during its many

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visits to the inner solar system the