Now Playing: Tenth Avenue North, "The Light Meets the Dark", "The Truth Is Who You Are."

If you go outside tonight this evening and you're living in Oklahoma, you'll see something beautiful. On the western horizon, just above and to the left of where the sun set, four planets have conjoined. Venus is the bright one (you can always see Venus thanks to the fact that she's very bright and closely follows the sun) close to the horizon. Up a little and to the right is Mercury, slightly dimmer. Up a bit more and to the left is Mars, also dim (they'll both look red thanks to the hazy atmosphere). Equidistant between Mars and Mercury is Saturn, so faint that he can hardly be seen, but he's there. Together Venus, Mercury, and Mars form an elegant triangle, with Saturn in the middle of the hypotenuse.

If you look a bit more, you can also see some of the summer constellations. Scorpius, as my father pointed out, is the huge loopy V in the southwest. The Big Dipper is in the upper northwest, and Cygnus, one of my favorites, is the huge shining cross in the middle of the sky, slightly to the east. Cassiopeia is probably up there somewhere, too, as would be the Little Dipper.

To the northeast are the Perseids, and if you feel like staying up late this week, you can catch the Perseid meteor shower. I've already seen a couple of meteors this week at about ten o'clock, but the shower is supposed to be best between midnight and four a.m.

All of these are bright enough to be seen in the middle of the city, even with the dust-filled atmosphere. Simply gorgeous.