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brightness, so a magnitude 1 object is 100 times brighter than a magnitude 6 object. And since I do repeat magnitude quite often through this bulletin as well as on my own. August 4th, the moon rises about 7 degrees north of Saturn in the southeast around midnight. The ring planet continues to brighten and fatten and present a tantalizing site in a telescope as it moves towards opposition in early October. On the 6th we have the last quarter moon. On the 9th, the waning crescent moon allows about 4 degrees from Mars in the early morning sky. Mars smolders just north of the upraised club of Orion. It shines at magnitude plus 1.3 in spans of...