BACKYARD STARGAZER: August nights are full of sights
By Francis Parnell It’s August, and there are a number of nice celestial pairings to observe with naked eyes, and especially with binoculars. At dusk on the 1st, the waxing gibbous Moon, Jupiter, and Saturn formed a triangle in the southeastern sky. Bright Jupiter was less than 3 degrees upper right of the Moon with Saturn to the left. On the 2nd at dusk, the Moon had moved along its orbit and formed a graceful arc, with Saturn...
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