{"id":1690,"date":"2014-07-27T00:00:32","date_gmt":"2014-07-27T00:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/blog\/?p=1690"},"modified":"2014-07-22T23:46:47","modified_gmt":"2014-07-22T23:46:47","slug":"august-2014-astronomy-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/27\/august-2014-astronomy-events\/","title":{"rendered":"August 2014 astronomy events"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u00a1SkyCaramba! Weekly astronomy blog for the week ending August 2, 2014<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/27\/august-2014-astronomy-events\/four-objects-august-2014\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1692\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1692\" title=\"Four objects August 2014\" src=\"http:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Four-objects-August-2014.jpg\" alt=\"Spica, Mars, Saturn, and Antares line up in August 2014\" width=\"600\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Four-objects-August-2014.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Four-objects-August-2014-300x130.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Are you watching the four bright southern objects lined up after sunset? From east to west, they are Antares, Saturn, Mars, and Spica. As a group, they move a little farther west every night this month. However, Mars is moving toward Saturn and will be just south of it on the 24<sup>th<\/sup>. It will head to a spot in the sky just north of Antares in September. The moon drops in between Saturn and Mars on the 3<sup>rd<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/27\/august-2014-astronomy-events\/jupiter-and-venus-aug-18-2014\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1695\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1695\" title=\"Jupiter and Venus Aug. 18, 2014\" src=\"http:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Jupiter-and-Venus-Aug.-18-2014.jpg\" alt=\"Jupiter and Venus close conjunction on August 18, 2014\" width=\"245\" height=\"164\" \/><\/a>Venus has been a morning object for a few months now. It&#8217;s in Gemini. As the twins rise earlier every day this month, Venus drops below them. Jupiter emerges from conjunction in the dawn and passes just a quarter degree from Venus on the 18<sup>th<\/sup>. Then the king of the planets will be above the goddess. If you have a clear enough horizon, look at the two planets maneuver through the Beehive Cluster in the days before and after that close call.<\/p>\n<p>Mercury starts the month as a morning object. It&#8217;s not easy to see when it emerges in the evening sky later in the month. The best evening view of Mercury in late August will be close to the equator.<\/p>\n<p>Constellations rising on August evenings include Cygnus, Aquila, and Capricornus. Those setting include Virgo and Bo\u00f6tes. Cetus and Pisces rise around midnight. Taurus, Orion, and Canis Major are morning risers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/27\/august-2014-astronomy-events\/moon-occults-venus-august-2014-vismaps\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1698\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1698\" title=\"Moon occults Venus August 2014 vismaps\" src=\"http:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Moon-occults-Venus-August-2014-vismaps.jpg\" alt=\"Visibility maps for the moon occulting Venus in August 2014\" width=\"300\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Moon-occults-Venus-August-2014-vismaps.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Moon-occults-Venus-August-2014-vismaps-250x300.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The moon occults Saturn on the 4<sup>th<\/sup>. The best places to see it are in Australia and the islands east of the continent. There&#8217;ll be another occultation on the 31<sup>st<\/sup> visible from parts of Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The Perseid meteors could produce up to 60 meteors per hour around the 12<sup>th<\/sup> and 13<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>Neptune will be at opposition on the 29<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>An equinox will occur on Mars on the 17<sup>th<\/sup>. The sun is heading south in the Martian sky.<\/p>\n<p>Moon phases this month are first quarter on the 4<sup>th<\/sup>, full moon on the 10<sup>th<\/sup>, last quarter on the 17<sup>th<\/sup>, and new moon on the 25<sup>th<\/sup>. The moon will be farthest north on the 7<sup>th<\/sup> and farthest south on the 19<sup>th<\/sup>. The moon will be closest to Earth on the 10<sup>th<\/sup> and farthest on the 24<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a1SkyCaramba!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four bright objects lined up after sunset, the moon passes in front of Saturn twice, Venus and Jupiter are in close quarters, and an equinox on Mars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[5,25,4,142,314,23,18,614,17],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1690"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1690"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1702,"href":"https:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1690\/revisions\/1702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}