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Venus is leaving the evening sky. Mercury's at greatest elongation. Saturn stays up all night. Mars crosses the crab. What we learn from transits of Venus.

Venus and Mercury pair up in the evening. The moon passes by Mars and Jupiter. The Draconid meteor shower peaks. Several objects are at opposition or close to it. And they're in Cetus and Pisces.

Mars at equinox. The moon hides the Pleiades. Mercury farthest from the sun. Venus goes retrograde. And there's an upcoming occultation of Jupiter. The moon will pass in front of the big planet. But you can also see Jupiter's four brightest moons get hidden too.

Neptune at opposition. Mercury passes Spica. Another daytime meteor shower. You may see some meteors early in the morning. But these meteors are mostly entering the atmosphere by day. Maybe you can listen for them on the radio.

The moon passes by Venus. Mercury makes headway into the evening. Mars is closest to Pollux. Southern lunistice and lunar apogee. Not everywhere gets 12 hours of sunlight on the equinox. Some places don't get exactly 12 hours at all--ever.

The moon at apogee and heading south. Uranus goes retrograde. Mercury moves toward Venus. What's in a name? Maybe a few thousand years of human oral history. It doesn't seem so now, but Milky Way and galaxy go back to the same origin when people described what they saw in the sky.

The moon passes by Saturn. Venus is at aphelion. The moon reaches its farthest north. Venus passes by Spica, whose light left the star around the time of the American Revolution.

We get a deep partial lunar eclipse this week. Just a little deeper and it would be total. Mars continues making its way through Gemini. Jupiter rises just before the sun. Venus approaches Spica.

The constellation Cetus rises about midnight. The variable star Mira remains beyond naked eye visibility. Mars reaches the feet of Gemini. Mercury zooms into the sunrise away from Jupiter.

There's a total solar eclipse this week. Venus reaches greatest elongation. Mercury, Mars, and the moon delight in the morning. And watch for Perseid meteors.

Earth is eye-to-eye with Mars in a manner of speaking. The moon passes by Neptune, Saturn, and Uranus. Venus approaches Porrima. Venus and Mercury could both appear at semi-circle phase on the same day, even though math says they shouldn't.

Venus is the only naked eye planet in our evening sky. It's near the lion's tail. Or it's by what some ancient observers likened to a dog pen. Saturn and Mars shine in the morning. Mercury's joining them.

Venus is below the lion's belly. Saturn's rings are tipped to us. Mercury makes it to the morning. Two faint solar system objects were at opposition together earlier this month. Now, two more are.

Jupiter is exiting the evening sky. The moon passes Regulus and Venus. Saturn's rings at their best for a while. Orion's hunting trip begins in the morning. Earth is getting closer to the sun now, but that's not why it's so hot in the northern hemisphere lately.

Two asteroids orbiting between Mars and Jupiter are up all night this week. One got its name because of two sad events that happened on the same date 13 years apart. Venus passes by Regulus. Jupiter approaches the crab. The moon passes Saturn.