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Perseid Meteor Shower Peaks As Waning Moon Meets Venus: What To Watch For In The Night Sky This Week - Forbes

Perseid Meteor Shower Peaks As Waning Moon Meets Venus: What To Watch For In The Night Sky This Week - Forbes

Perseid Meteor Shower Peaks As Waning Moon Meets Venus: What To Watch For In The Night Sky This Week - Forbes
Aug 10, 2020 1 min, 1 sec

As the week wears on it becomes one of the best weeks of the year to see the Milky Way in the run-up to August 19’s New Moon.

From August 12 the Moon will be rising after midnight, giving you a few hours of dark skies just as the brightest part of our galaxy is arcing overhead. ?

With two of summer’s celestial treats in the same week, and some great views of Venus and the Moon to boot, a sparkling seven days of stargazing awaits.

It’s also worth looking for Perseid meteors on Wednesday, August 12 into Thursday, August 13, and even the night after that. If there’s a clear sky this week, get outside and look up.

The center of our galaxy looks spectacular in August, but the Milky Way is at its best when the Moon is down.

That’s from tonight through August 19’s New Moon.

Always the brightest object in the night sky aside from the Moon, Venus today reaches its greatest elongation west. .

This morning Venus will still be rising about three hours before the Sun, together with an 18%-lit crescent Moon (see above) that will seem closer to it the nearer it gets to sunrise

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