Meteor shower august 2009

For the month of August, the full moon is August 6, the green corn moon in American Indian Lore. The first week of August is the growth and the moon visible all night.
On the morning of August 12 is the peak of the Perseids Meteor Shower, the best our beautiful fireworks every year. If you have a dark sky site, is a meteor every 2-3 minutes from midnight to dawn.

Growth charts for close to half a moon of Saturn and Mercury at sunset on 22 August with the three objects in a straight line along the horizon on SW 8:15 PM CDT, with the mercury in the middle ... great digital camera photo-PO-user with a tripod shooting in Night scene mode on.

Just as the beginning next month, the video is beautiful the sky in August 2009, with many different objects, the Hubble Space Telescope site: http://hubblesite.org/explore_ Astronomy / tonight \ \ \ 's_sky / .
Mercury is visible in the evening sky in mid-August. It is 3 degrees south of Saturn at dawn on August 17, and both are in line with the growth end of the half moon August 22

The control of the threshold for the remainder of the bright morning star. Mars, is in the sky in the morning.
But in August belongs to Jupiter, at sunset, the opposition stands on August 14 Escambia, for amateurs (CEA) Sky Ft Pickens interpretation meeting. And 'the brightest object in the sky that night in August. Jupiter is not a sport, but two large red spots, the second in the Northern Hemisphere, the development last spring, and the four major World Galilei Chen, getupft with a telescope of 400 years in October, are constantly in motion, and projecting its shadow on the giant planet.

Hercules is retro, with a fine globular cluster M-13 into the sky and the paper binocs. Some other good globular clusters are also shown, and the best binocs points on the map.

The brightest star in the northern hemisphere, Vega dominates the NE sky. Vega low, the two brightest stars of the Summer Triangle, Deneb is at the top of the Northern Cross, known as the swan of Cygnus Romans. This is one of the brightest stars in our galaxy, more than 50,000 times brighter than our sun.

In the south, Antares is located approximately at the same time as Scorpio. It appears reddish (which means the greek name of the rival of Mars or Ares for the Latins), because only half of our yellow hot Sunday, it is clear, because it is a matter of inflated red giant, large enough to swallow our whole solar system , Saturn as Orbit!
Only a small NE shooter, and much lighter, great Jupiter dominates the sky in Capricorn SE. Each small volume shows that Galileo was interrogated in 1609, four large moons, all more or similar to our size, in a rail line along Jupiter's equator. So, you have the old and the center of gravity of Jupiter for a constantly changing dance of the moons of immense world.

CEA plans Ft Pickens, August 14 for the Perseids Meteor hours. We are set up for the sunset Battery Worth PICNIC AREA, so bring your beach chairs and blankets.

The flag at Pensacola Beach is the site of the sidewalk in front of Astronomy 24-25 July, 28-29 August and 25-26 September in the evening, of course, be established, allowing clear sky in order to observe Jupiter, the moon, satellites, such as the International Space Station ISS and the Hubble Space Telescope, fog, clusters, double stars and other celestial bodies treated. Star-charts and information on EAAA be.