To the left of the Moon this evening are orange Mars and blue-white Spica. The peak of the shower is expected on the morning of August 12th. To the lower right of the Moon are Mars and Spica. They form a diagonal line in that order. Look about 35 minutes after sundown.
Mercury sinks lower day by day.
MARS shines pale orange-red in the southwest after dusk. In a telescope Mars is tiny, a bit more than 6 arcseconds wide. It rises around sunset and is glowing low in the east-southeast by dark. It glows in the east-southeast, below the Great Square of Pegasus, in the early morning hours. It's only 14th magnitude.