Saturday August 1^st there will be two opportunities for planet and Moon viewing. (a ‘2fer’)
   On Saturday morning before the Sun rises watch for the innermost planet Mercury to be about 6-7^o from Pollux, one of the two ‘twin stars’ of Gemini the Twins, as this graphic is showing. Venus, if you haven’t noticed, is shining very brightly higher above the southern horizon.
   Then Saturday evening after sunset look for the 12-day old waning gibbous Moon to be about 1-2^o from the outer ringed planet Jupiter and about 4-5^o from another outer ringed planet, Saturn.
   
   
   
   
   *2fer – suggesting that it is possible to get two instead of one (2 for 1) of whatever is being got.
   
   
   

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