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what's up for august

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this month brings a bunch of

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opportunities to see the moon posing

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with the planets

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plus here come the meteors on august 1st

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the moon makes a lovely triangle with

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jupiter and saturn

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low in the southeast after sunset the

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trio is visible all night rising to its

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highest point in the south around 11 pm

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local time

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if you miss them there's another chance

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at the end of the month on august 28th

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as the moon swings back around in its

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orbit to join the planetary pair

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on august 9th mars will appear super

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close to the moon before dawn

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look toward the south high in the sky

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and you can't miss it

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mars is the bright reddish point of

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light just right of the moon

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weather permitting this should be a

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beautiful sky with the pleiades

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orion aldebaran and venus to the

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southeast

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on august 15th in the hour before

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sunrise look for venus in the east just

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a couple of finger widths apart from the

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crescent moon

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and if you take a look before the sky

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gets too bright you'll see the duo

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surrounded that morning by a ring of

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bright stars

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the annual perseid meteor shower peaks

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on the morning of august 12th

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the last quarter moon will interfere

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with the visibility of most fainter

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perseid meteors this year

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but you'll still be able to see a few

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brighter ones including the occasional

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fireball

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the best time to look is in the predawn

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hours of august 12th

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but midnight to dawn any morning the

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week before or after should produce a

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few meteors

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the perseids generally appear to radiate

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from a point high in the north called

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the radiant

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but you need only point yourself

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generally toward the north and look up

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and while we're talking meteors did you

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know many of these shooting stars

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come from comets most of the annual

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meteor showers we observe take place as

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earth passes through trails of debris

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left behind by active comets orbiting

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the sun casting off little bits of dusty

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debris in their long tails

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the perseid meteors come from a comet

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called swift tuttle

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which orbits the sun every 133 years

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in july a comet that was just discovered

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this spring by nasa's neowise mission

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made an appearance in our skies wowing

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observers on the ground

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and even in space this comet has a

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nearly 7 000 year orbit around the sun

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so

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it won't be back this way for a long

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time but it's possible that a meteor you

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see some night in the future

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might just be a little reminder of comet

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neowise

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here are the phases of the moon for

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you can catch up on all of nasa's

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missions to explore the solar system and

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beyond at nasa.gov

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i'm preston dykes from nasa's jet