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what's up for August Mars and Saturn

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pair up at sunset and Venus and Jupiter

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before dawn hello and welcome I'm Jane

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Houston Jones from NASA's Jet Propulsion

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Laboratory in Pasadena California to

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planetary conjunctions are visible to

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the unaided eye everywhere this month

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Venus will be visible alone at dawn low

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on the eastern horizon for the first

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week of the month then a week later look

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for Jupiter just below brighter Venus

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the moon joins the two planets on august

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twenty-third making a pretty triangle in

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the morning sky a dramatic close pairing

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of mars and saturn unfolds all month

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long on august 1st through 4th notice

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bright mars in the southwest guy between

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fainter saturn on one side and Spica on

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the other the moon hopscotch us through

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the three objects each night moving from

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the right of spica on the first of

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august to the left of saturn on the 4th

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by the end of the month swift Mars's to

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the lower left of saturn and the moon

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joins the pair on august 31st the Milky

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Way of summer comes into view as the sky

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darkens an hour or two after sunset on

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the night of August twelfth and

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thirteenth the moon is visible all night

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long competing with the peak of the

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perseid meteor shower but don't let that

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big bright moon deter you from a fun sky

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watching and Perseid meteor watching

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night the brightest meteors will be

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easily visible despite the moonshine the

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Perseids are visible at impressive rates

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of up to about 20 per hour for two weeks

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before the peak and a week afterwards

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that gives weekend campers and

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stargazers a good opportunity to see

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plenty of Perseids on august weekends

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through the 17

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aim your binoculars at the Big Dipper

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and then star hop to Polaris and on to

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the right or east to the nearby w-shaped

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constellation cassiopeia from there keep

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scanning right and you should be able to

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spot the Andromeda galaxy with your

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binoculars in the nearby constellation

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Andromeda you can learn about how NASA

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studies galaxies meteor showers and

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about all of NASA's missions at WWDC