Tuesday morning, August 19^th the two bright planets Jupiter and Venus, now separated by a little more than 1^o still dominate the morning skies at sunrise. Jupiter will have moved to its closest to M-44, the Beehive Cluster as it comes within about 1^o. For an interesting contrast the 4^th magnitude star Asellus Australis one of the brighter stars in the constellation Cancer the Crab.

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   This part of the early morning sky contains most of the northern hemisphere winter season stars as this graphic shows.
   
   
   
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   Click here to go to the Qué tal in the Current Skies web site for more observing information for this month.