Northern Hemisphere Summer Edition

Home Page back to the Cursor Monthly Sky Charts Spécial Eté (hém. nord)

--- Current now! ... Wwd Pairing Mars-Saturn in Twilight! ... Wwd Jupiter at its Best ... Wwd The Perseids now Active and The Southern Delta Aquarids to Peak Next Jul. 27! ... And More! ... check more with all the tools on this page! Last Sun is here --- color codes: Wwd worldwide, UsA USA-Americas, EuA Europe-Africa, AsP Asia-Pacific, Chk Check for Your Zone. check the site's concept and the instructions of use (note: no link back!)

Norther Hemisphere Summer Edition According to our policy, we provide, for our northern users, a summer edition. This allows them to plan and observe during that season, which is the one for the holidays in the northern hemisphere. Check the whole of the events and observations available during your summer from that page!

| and check too the Summer Edition from your mobile. Check from the 'Amateur Astronomy' On Your Mobile!' page!

You will note too that, like each summer, we are making available the data for the planets during next year! Check with the link at 'Coming This Summer'!

Coming This Summer! The Page for July and the Page for August!	Sun

Coming This Summer!

Events awaiting this summer are:

• it's Jupiter's best
• pairing Mars and Saturn like evening stars; Mars like an evening star. Venus reappearing in August in the southern hem. and the tropics
• great winter sky stars and constellations ornating dawn, without any planets!
• Summer is the season for the Perseids shooting stars
• opposition of Neptune is in August

Above all, don't forget the two last major astronomical events for 2008!

• the August 1st total solar eclipse over Siberia and north central China, as it's partial for some other parts of the world, and interesting
• the August 16th partial lunar eclipse, which is seeing in its entirety for central, eastern Europe, the Middle East, India and Africa (the western part of it excepted)

As far as the night sky is concerned:

• the northerners will have the Summer Triangle, and the center of the Milky Way Galaxy at their disposal
• at the tropics, the observers will get the Milky way-embedded constellations, the center of the Milky Way Galaxy and other objectes and interesting constellations
• in the southern hemisphere, that will be the Milky Way-embedded constellations southwest and West, and the Summer Triangle North

And in space?

• About nothing. Just a spacewalk at the ISS in July

The Page for July and the Page for August!

Get all the observational data and events from both the Events, Moon, Planets pages for July and August!

Events, Moon, Planets in July	Events, Moon, Planets in August

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