• August 6 – Last Quarter (moon absent from evening sky)
  
• August 8 – OPEN HOUSE at Farpoint Observatory, JOIN US beginning 8:30 pm
  
• August 14 – New Moon
  
• August 22 – First Quarter
  
• August 27 – NEKAAL GENERAL MEETING, Topeka Library, 7:00 pm
  
• August 29 – Full Moon

Evening Sky:

• Mercury – in west, low
• Venus – in west, very bright
• Jupiter – in west, very bright
• Saturn – in southwest
• Neptune – in east

Midnight:

• Saturn – in southwest
• Uranus – in east
• Neptune – in southeast

Morning Sky:

• Venus – in east
• Mars – in east
• Uranus – in south
• Neptune – in southwest

North to South, at 9-11 pm:

• Ursa Minor, the Little Bear, also the Little Dipper
• Draco, the Dragon
• Hercules
• Lyra, the Lyre
• Cygnus, the Swan
• Aquila, the Eagle
• Ophiuchus, the Serpent Handler
• Sagittarius, the Archer
• Scorpio, the Scorpion

• The Perseid meteor shower is August's big news, peaking the night of August 12/13. It's best after midnight when the radiant is highest, but even around midnight there will be occasional fireballs across the sky. Get a lawn chair, point your feet northeast, have a jacket and/or blanket ready, let your eyes dark-adapt–and look up!
• It's still Saturn season. August gives great evening views of the ringed planet, so get a look through binoculars or better still, a telescope (hint: if the sky is clear at our Open House August 8, someone is sure to have his telescope pointed at Saturn & you'll get a good look).
• The Summer Triangle of stars is back, too. In August evenings, look very high in the eastern sky.
• No comets visible in binoculars from Kansas this month.