• July 30 New Moon
  
• August 6 First Quarter and Farpoint Open House
  
• August 10 Bright star occultation (see Extras, below)
• August 13 Full Moon (the “Grain Moon”, or “Green Corn Moon”)
  
• August 21 Last Quarter
  
• August 28 New Moon

• Venus – not visible in August (behind Sun)

Evening Sky:

• Saturn – western sky, early evening

Morning Sky:

• Mercury – emerges from dawn sunglow about August 27
• Jupiter – rises about 10 pm
• Mars – rises about 1-2 am

North to South, at about 10 pm:

• Ursa Minor, the little bear (Polaris, the north star, at end of little dipper's handle)
• Draco, the dragon
• Lyra, the lyre/harp (directly overhead; the bright blue star is Vega)
• Hercules, the warrior (just to Lyra's east)
• Ophiuchus, the serpent bearer
• Aquila, the eagle
• Scutum, the shield
• Sagittarius, the archer (look for the teapot shape, low in the south)