A table listing some of the Astronomical Phenomena for August 2015:
Phenomena August
| Day | Event |
|---|---|
| 2 | Moon is at perigee 362,132 km or 225,018 miles from Earth (10:10 UT) |
| 2 | Moon passes 3 degrees north of Neptune mag +7.8 (15 UT) |
| 2 | Saturn mag +0.4 is stationary in Libra, afterwards resumes direct motion (19 UT) |
| 5 | Moon passes 1 degrees south of Uranus mag +5.8, occultation is visible from South America, Falkland Islands (8:44 UT) |
| 5 | Mercury mag -0.8 passes 8 degrees north of Venus mag -4.3 (9 UT) |
| 6 | Northern Delta Aquarids meteor shower peaks ZHR = 5 |
| 6 | Saturn's moon Iapetus is at greatest western elongation mag +10.1 (15 UT) |
| 7 | Last quarter Moon (02:03 UT) |
| 7 | Mercury mag -0.7 passes 0.6 degrees north of Jupiter mag -1.7 (4 UT) |
| 7 | Mercury mag -0.7 passes 1 degrees north of Regulus mag +1.4 (15 UT) |
| 8 | Venus is at aphelion 0.728 AU (approx. 109 million kms or 67.7 million miles) from the Sun (20 UT) |
| 8 | Moon passes 0.7 degrees south of Aldebaran mag +0.9, occultation is visible from E Europe, NW Asia, Scandinavia, Russia, NW Canada (23:46 UT) |
| 10 | Jupiter mag. -1.7 passes 0.4 degrees north of Regulus mag +1.4 (23 UT) |
| 12 | Moon passes 12 degrees south of Pollux mag +1.1 (12 UT) |
| 13 | Moon passes 6 degrees south of Mars mag +1.7 (5 UT) |
| 13 | Perseids meteor shower peaks ZHR = 100 (6 UT) |
| 14 | New Moon (14:54) |
| 14 | Moon passes 5 degrees north of Venus mag -4.1 (16 UT) |
| 15 | Moon passes 3 degrees south of Regulus mag +1.4 (10 UT) |
| 15 | Moon passes 4 degrees south of Jupiter mag -1.7 (12 UT) |
| 15 | Venus is at inferior conjunction (19 UT) |
| 15 | Asteroid (21) Lutetia mag +9.3 is at opposition in Capricornus |
| 16 | Moon passes 2 degrees south of Mercury mag -0.3 (15 UT) |
| 18 | Moon is at apogee 405,846 km or 252,181 miles from Earth (2:42 UT) |
| 19 | Moon passes 4 degrees north of Spica mag +1.0 (18 UT) |
| 20 | Mars mag +1.7 passes 0.5 degrees south of the Beehive Cluster (M44) in Cancer (16 UT) |
| 22 | Moon passes 2 degrees north of Saturn mag +0.4 (17 UT) |
| 22 | First quarter Moon (19:32 UT) |
| 26 | Jupiter is in conjunction with the Sun (22 UT) |
| 29 | Venus mag -4.2 passes 9 degrees south of Mars mag +1.7 (6 UT) |
| 29 | Full Moon (18:36 UT) |
| 30 | Moon passes 3 degrees north of Neptune mag +7.8 (0 UT) |
| 30 | Moon is at perigee 358,288 km or 222,630 miles from Earth (15:28 UT) |