Download Episode! What to look out, and up, for in August. Ralph & Paul pick their highlights for this month’s skies; starting with the solar system objects on offer to observers and imagers: Dwarf Planet Ceres for small telescopes in the constellation Gemini Saturn in the evening, Venus at dawn and Uranus high up in Pisces The long anticipated total solar eclipse for observers in the United States The Perseid meteor shower peaking on the night of 12/13th August. Next up, we take a deep sky pick from our list of favourites for this time of year: Ralph – Globular Cluster Messier 56 between Lyra & Cygnus Paul – Peculiar Galaxy NGC7727 in Aquarius. And we finish this sky guide with August’s moon phases.