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Volume 18 -- Issue 8
Sky Watch Calendar -- August 2012
02. Full Moon
05. Curiosity Lands on Mars
06. Asteroid Vesta Very Close to Aldebaran
08. Waning Gibbous Moon
   near Hamal (Aries)
09. Last Quarter Moon
10. Moon at Apogee - 404 123 km
Sun Enters Astronomical Sign of Leo
Waning Crescent Moon near the Pleiades
11. Waning Crescent Moon near Jupiter
12. Perseid Meteor Shower Peak
13. Waning Crescent Moon near Venus
15. Venus at Western Elongation
Waning Crescent Moon near Mercury
16. Mercury at Western Elongation
17. New Moon
Mars Closest to Saturn
21. Waxing Crescent Moon near Mars
22. Sun Enters Astrological Sign
of Virgo
23. Moon at Perigee - 369 728 km
24. First Quarter Moon
Moon near Antares
Neptune at Opposition
26. Dawn Departs Vesta
30. GRAIL Mission Extension
31. Full Moon