AUGUST 2024 OBSERVING Lunar Almanac Northern Hemisphere Sky Chart 20 19 Yellow dots indicate which part of the Moon's limb is tipped the most toward Earth by libration. NASA / LRO August 7 8 MOON PHASES MON SUN TUE WED 1 4 11 18 25 5 12 19 26 6 13 20 27 7 14 21 28 8 15 22 29 THU 2 9 16 23 30 FRI 3 10 17 24 31 SAT NEW MOON FIRST QUARTER August 4 11:13 UT FULL MOON August 19 18:26 UT DISTANCES Apogee 405,297 km Perigee August 12 15:19 UT LAST QUARTER August 26 09:26 UT August 9, 2h UT Diameter 29′ 29″ August 21, 5h UT 360,197 km Diameter 33′ 10″ FAVORABLE LIBRATIONS * Jeans S Crater August 7 * Helmholtz Crater August 8 * Repsold Crater August 19 * Cleostratus Crater August 20 42 AUGUST 2024 * SKY & TELESCOPE Galaxy Double star -1 1 2 3 4 Planet location shown for mid-month USING THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE MAP Go out within an hour of a time listed to the right. Turn the map around so the yellow label for the direction you're facing is at the bottom. That's the horizon. The center of the map is overhead. Ignore the parts of the map above horizons you're not facing. Exact for latitude 40°N. -40° c i 18 n g LYRA Deneb N o r t h e r n C r o s s C Y G N U S 61 M29 M15 P E G A S U S G r e a t S q u a r e o f P e g a s u s PISCES E g -1 0 1 2 3 4 a Galaxy Double star Variable star Open cluster Diffuse nebula Globular cluster Planetary nebula α β δ S E Jupiter 3h 0h Saturn M30 F a 21h F a γ ε α Polaris r o N h E IC θ S E R P E N ( C A U D A ) M11 M16 C L I P 70 S C U T U M M17 µ M25 T Moon Aug 16 I C τ ζ ε σ M25 M22 CORONA AUSTRALIS SAGITTARIUS Moon Aug 19 CAPR I CORNUS c i n g VULPECULA M27 A Q U A R I U S ζ Altair β η A Q U I L A α γ DELPHINUS EQUULEUS CAMELOPARDALIS ε P ERS EUS β γ δ CAS S I OP E I A Double Cluster C E P H E U S β γ δ ANDROMEDA M31 LACERTA SAGITTA M2 β α M52 α Vega R M57 Albireo M39 c i n a ι δ χ α γ ε ε η β µ θ ζ α F s t α a F g n c i E N h t γ α γ α µ α ε δ γ β β η β γ