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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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as the sky grows dark this month turn

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your gaze to the southwest to find

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Saturn a telescope reveals the planets

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stargazing on a hot August night reveals

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a multitude of wonders Laira the small

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harp lies high in the late evening sky

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its main star is the great Vega one of

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the brightest in the sky look for lehre

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by locating Vega and then the

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parallelogram of stars nearby epsilon

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Larry the bright star near Vega is

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actually a wonderful quadruple star

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system known as the double-double in the

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parallelogram of Lyra lies the dramatic

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ring nebula it is an expanding shell of

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glowing gas expelled by the dying star

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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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Cygnus area with binoculars the most

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prominent is the North America nebula an

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area of gas and dust illuminated by the

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nearby brilliant star Deneb Cygnus also

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hosts several clusters of stars the

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easiest to find our m-29 & M 39 m 29 is

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found near the center of the northern

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cross when viewed in a small telescope

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it resembles a small square best seen in

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cluster of about thirty stars just to

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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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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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use binoculars to look for the coat

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hanger located halfway between Altair

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and Albireo this remarkable little group

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of stars forms a familiar pattern from

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during the second half of august faint

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mars makes an appearance above the

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venus joins mars in the morning sky

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during the final days of the month try

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to spot the planets before the sky

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brightens the perseid meteor shower is

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an always anticipated feature of the

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August night sky look for meteors during

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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 which Earth passes

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through once a year was left behind by

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comet swift-tuttle during its many

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the night sky is always a celestial