Thursday August 28 to Thursday September 4
The First Quarter Moon is Sunday August 31. This is a “blue” First Quarter Moon. The “eyes of Clavius” are visible on the 1st. Mars is passing through Virgo heading towards the star Spica. Saturn is rising before midnight and is the brightest object above the eastern horizon. Saturn is close to Neptune. Venus and Jupiter are visible in the morning twilight and are drawing apart.
The First Quarter Moon is Sunday August 31. This is a “blue” First Quarter Moon the second first Quarter moon in a month. The Moon is at apogee, where is is furthest from the Earth, on the 30th. The “eyes of Clavius” are visible on the 1st.
North-eastern twilight sky on the morning of Saturday, August 30 as seen from Adelaide at 05:43 ACST (60 minutes before sunrise, click to embiggen).
Venus and Jupiter are drawing apart. Jupiter forms a triangle with Procyon and Betelgeuse. Venus is becoming harder to see low above the horizon
The insets are the telescopic views of Venus and Jupiter at this time.
Eastern sky on the evening of Saturday, August 30 as seen from Adelaide at 23:00 ACST (click to embiggen).
Similar views will be seen from the rest of Australia at roughly the equivalent local time (90 minutes after sunset).
North-western sky on Sunday, August 31 as seen from Adelaide at 19:20 ACST (90 minutes after sunset, click to embiggen). The Last Quarter Moon is close to the bright red star Antares. This is a “blue” First Quarter Moon, the second last quarter Moon in a month.
Whole sky on Saturday, August 30 as seen from Adelaide at 19:20 ACST, 90 minutes after sunset (click to embiggen).
Mars is in the north-west.
Elsewhere in Australia will see a similar view at the equivalent time (90 minutes after sunset).
Mercury is low in the morning twilight.
Venus is lowering in the morning twilight moving away from Jupiter.
Mars is lowering in the evening sky and passing through Virgo towards Spica.
Jupiter climbs in the morning twilight above Venus. Jupiter forms a triangle with Procyon and Betelgeuse.
Saturn is rising before midnight. It is near Neptune
Star Map via Virtual sky. Use your mouse to scroll around and press 8 when your pointer is in the map to set to the current time.
Cloud cover predictions can be found at SkippySky.
Here is the near-real time satellite view of the clouds (day and night) http://satview.bom.gov.au/
Source: http://astroblogger.blogspot.com/2025/08/thursday-august-28-to-thursday.html
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