Best night sky events for August 2025
In this illustration the inner circle tells you where the moon is in its orbit around us and how the sunlight is hitting it (the sunlight is coming from the right side of the illustration). The outer circle tells us what we see and what we call that position in the moon’s orbit around us. The animation from this website does a much better job of explaining our Moon’s phases. https://astro.unl.edu/naap/lps/animations/lps.html Graphic courtesy of Wikipedia
Get ready for everyone’s favorite observing month because the nights are getting longer, are still warm, plus there is arguably the best meteor shower of the year. The August night sky brings the famous Perseid Meteor Shower, followed by the Full Sturgeon Moon. There’s a telescopic option that will appear in our night sky — the transit shadow of Saturn’s largest moon, Titan. Plus, a close conjunction between Venus and Jupiter. Here is everything worth watching, including many picturesque planet-moon pairings and suggestions for telescopic observations.
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