Hyderabad, Aug. 5 -- Your Instagram feeds are about to be filled with images of night-sky scenery or celestial events, as next week, three sky events converge between August 12 and 14.

With millions of posts uploaded on social media every day, it would be easy for the three events - a total solar eclipse, the Perseid meteor shower and a six-planet gathering - to blur into one.

Before the streaked-sky photos and breathless captions arrive, here is a guide on what to expect.

The eclipse India will not see

Although for Indians the eclipse won't be visible, the other two events will be, with conditions this year close to perfect.

The total solar eclipse of August 12 tracks across the Arctic, Greenland, Iceland and northern Spain. By the ...