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when Saturn and Venus will be extremely close and almost in a perfect line with the stars Castor and Pollux on the left, and Procyon and Sirius on the right, and all six of these objects to the left of the great hunter constellation, Orion.

You won't need

an umbrella for

this shower

With the coming of August, we have a greater chance of seemg meteors than at most other times of the year. The very famous Perseid Meteor Shower, so-called because these meteors appear to radiate from the area of the constellation Perseus in the north eastern sky, reaches its peak on August 12, though I have seen some of these meteors as early as June.

Perseid meteors are tiny dust particles left in a huge elliptical stream in the inner solar system from Comet SwiftTuttle, a comet of 130-year period, that last appeared in 1862

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