Universal Workshop

Low in the evening sky, Venus is passing about 1.5° south of Spica, the “ear of wheat” in the hand of harvest-maiden Virgo.

The Moon will dip into the northern half of Earth’s shadow, as shown on pages 100-101 of Astronomical Ca;endar 2026.

As seen from an American location.

Friends gathered on the balcony of an apartment two levels above ours, on August 12, and looking safely at the Sun through my pieces of welder’s glass.

The climax of the brightest planet’s performance in the evening sky this year, as described in the Venus pages of Astronomical Calendar 2026, and in our book about Venus, planet and goddess.

The Perseid meteor shower should be at its peak this year close to the time of new Moon – and therefore of the solar eclipse.

You – if you are in Canada, the northeastern US, Europe – will be in the partial eclipse.

A space view of the paths in 2026 of nine of the million-plus asteroids in the Main Belt, farther from us than Mars but nearer in than Jupiter.

“Our” means me and some friends.

This was the sky at Philadelphia on July 4, 1776, when the Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence.