
What a fun way to teach yourself, your children, your students, or your friends about our wonderful universe!

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Check planet-rise/planet-set, sunrise/sunset and moonrise/moonset times for where you are.SkyView® Lite brings stargazing to everyone! Simply point your iPhone, iPad, or iPod at the sky to identify stars, constellations, satellites, and more! For the most accurate location-specific information consult online planetariums like Stellarium and The Sky Live. Times and dates given apply to mid-northern latitudes. If a star is dimmer than Vega, it gets a (+) figure and if it’s brighter than Vega it gets a (-) figure. The fifth brightest star in the night sky and about 25 light-years away, this blue star is a yardstick for judging the apparent magnitude, or brightness, of stars.

Return to Vega, the star that all others are judged by. It’s not an official constellation, just an informal shape-what stargazers call an asterism. Look high up in the southwestern sky and you will see three bright stars that together make up what stargazers call the “Summer Triangle.” Now on the wane and sinking down to the west after dark, its three constituent stars-bright Vega, Deneb and Altair-still shine brightly and dominate that side of the sky.

getty Asterism of the week: ‘Summer Triangle’ The Summer Triangle and meteors photographed on August 12, 2021, from Gruenstadt in Germany.
