The Argentine National Observatory, today the Astronomical Observatory of Córdoba, was founded on 24 October 1871, by Argentine president Domingo F. Sarmiento and the North American astronomer Benjamin Apthorp Gould. From Wikipedia
Astronomers have pinpointed pre-dawn hours on August 12 at 6:30 a.m. as the best time to capture the planets’ tightest grouping alongside Perseid meteors.
