The Sky for the Month

The Sky over the Mornington Peninsula — August 2156

Computed for The Briars, Mt Martha. Times are local (Melbourne).

Highlights this month

  • 12ThuMercury in inferior conjunction with the Sun — lost in the glare. (6:06am)
  • 13FriPerseids meteor shower peaks (up to 100/hr). A thin 7% Moon leaves the sky dark.
  • 18WedThe Moon passes Saturn — 3° apart. (7:11pm)
  • 21SatMercury is stationary — resumes direct (eastward) motion. (2:28pm)
  • 29SunMercury at greatest morning elongation (18° from the Sun, mag −0.2) — best morning apparition. (10:25pm)

Sun & twilight

DateSunriseSunsetDay lengthAstro. dark beginsends
Sun 17:21am5:32pm10h 11m7:03pm5:50am
Tue 107:11am5:40pm10h 29m7:10pm5:42am
Fri 206:59am5:48pm10h 50m7:17pm5:30am
Tue 316:43am5:58pm11h 15m7:26pm5:16am

Days lengthen by about 63 minutes over the month.

The Moon

  • Full Moon SupermoonMon 2, 1:58am
  • Last QuarterSun 8, 4:59pm
  • New MoonMon 16, 1:26pm
  • First QuarterTue 24, 3:38pm
  • Full Moon SupermoonTue 31, 9:24am

Perigee 3 Aug (358,000 km) · Apogee 17 Aug (406,200 km) · Perigee 31 Aug (356,700 km)

The planets

Rise/set for mid-month at The Briars.

PlanetInMagRiseTransitSetBest
MercuryCnc4.96:33am11:57am5:22pmHidden
VenusGem−4.04:40am9:32am2:24pmMorning
MarsCnc1.75:57am10:49am3:40pmHidden
JupiterCnc−1.75:56am10:50am3:44pmHidden
SaturnLeo0.98:26am2:10pm7:54pmEvening
UranusSgr5.61:17pm8:40pm4:07amEvening
NeptuneSgr7.82:42pm9:56pm5:15amEvening

Meteor showers

  • Perseids — peaks 13 August, radiant in Perseus (up to 100/hr). The famous northern shower, but its far-northern radiant scarcely rises from Victoria — only a trickle this far south. A thin 7% Moon leaves the sky dark.

The solar system — August 2156

Evening sky Morning sky Up much of the night Lost in the Sun’s glare

Generated automatically from the MPAS sky engine on 28 September 2026.