August 10, 2007 - Moon near Pollux [at 22h UT, morning sky]August 11, 2007 - Perseid meteors
August 12,2007 - New Moon at 22:30 UT. Start of lunation 1047.
[A lunation is the cycle of phases in one synodic month, starting and ending with a "new moon". This is slightly longer than the sidereal lunar month, in which the Moon revolves once around the Earth, because of the additional effect of the Earth's revolution around the Sun.]
