Astronomy Events This Month

Mars is going to be the closest to Earth in recorded human history so far. You can go out at midnight and look in the South and the big blob of orangish yellow light (which you might mistake as air plane) is Mars. Even on the rainy nights you can see it lurking behind the cloud - it’s that bright. Infect it’s brighter then anything after Sun and Moon! Even in a modest telescope you can see it’s big bright surface magnified as large as Moon. More info is in this newsletter. Next Perseid meteor shower peaks on Aug 13, 2003. I’d spotted couple of shooting stars last week in just about two hours of time span and thought I was lucky! Well, this was the scientific reason behind it, actually.