Starwatch: The August night sky
by Alan Pickup from on (#FGT4)
August brings Britain's best views of the summer night sky. Our charts show the Summer Triangle looming in the S, its corners marked (in order of brightness) by Vega in Lyra, Altair in Aquila and Deneb in Cygnus. Capella in Auriga twinkles low in the NNE, below and left of Perseus and the radiant point for the Perseids meteor shower.
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