Astronomical Events

July 27 – August 2, 2026

Full Moon brilliance • Southern Delta Aquariids • Three meteor showers sharing one crowded sky

Written by Mia Astrology

There are weeks when the night sky behaves like a polite museum, presenting one beautiful object at a time and allowing us to admire it without interruption, and then there is the final week of July 2026, when the heavens apparently invite a Full Moon, three active meteor showers, brilliant Venus, predawn Mars and Saturn, and the slowly strengthening Perseids to the same party, then forget to appoint anyone responsible for crowd control.

The headline event is the Full Moon on Wednesday, July 29, followed only hours later by the predicted maximum of the Southern Delta Aquariid meteor shower on July 30, which would normally be an excellent reason to spend the night outside, except the Moon will be almost offensively bright and will wash out many of the shower’s fainter meteors. This does not make the week a failure. It simply changes the assignment. Instead of expecting an effortless meteor spectacle, we need to work with the sky we have, use the Moon as a magnificent observing target, watch for the brightest Delta Aquariids and Alpha Capricornid fireballs, and remember that the Perseids are already beginning their August climb.

For those of us in Iceland, this is also the last full astronomical week before the country begins counting down in earnest to the total solar eclipse of August 12. The nights are finally becoming noticeably darker again, although they remain short, and the sky feels as though it is gathering itself before the extraordinary events ahead.