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| - | ====== Sky Highlights and NEKAAL Events for JUNE 2016 ====== | ||
| - | * June 4 -- __**New Moon**__\\ | ||
| - | * June 4 -- **Open House** at Farpoint Observatory, 9 pm to ? --> Join us! | ||
| - | * June 12 -- First Quarter\\ | ||
| - | * June 20 -- Full Moon | ||
| - | * June 23 -- General Meeting, Topeka Library, 7 pm. Join us! | ||
| - | * June 27 -- Last Quarter | ||
| - | ===== PLANETS in June 2016 ===== | ||
| - | Evening Sky: | ||
| - | * **Mars** -- in south | ||
| - | * **Jupiter** -- in southwest | ||
| - | * **Saturn** -- in southeast (welcome back!) | ||
| - | Midnight: | + | For sky highlights see: |
| - | * **Mars** -- in south | + | |
| - | * **Jupiter** -- in west | + | |
| - | * **Saturn** -- in south | + | |
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| - | Morning Sky: | + | |
| - | * **Mercury** -- in east (twilight) | + | |
| - | * **Saturn** -- in southwest | + | |
| - | * **Uranus** -- in east | + | |
| - | * **Neptune** -- in southeast | + | |
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| - | ===== CONSTELLATIONS well placed in evening during June 2016 ===== | + | |
| - | North to South, at 9-11 pm: | + | |
| - | * **Ursa Minor**, the Little Bear, also the Little Dipper | + | |
| - | * **Draco**, the Dragon | + | |
| - | * **Ursa Major**, the Big Bear, also the Big Dipper | + | |
| - | * **Hercules**, the Strong Man | + | |
| - | * **Corona Borealis**, the northern crown, Crown of Ariadne | + | |
| - | * **Boötes**, the Hunter | + | |
| - | * **Virgo**, the Maiden | + | |
| - | * **Libra**, the Scales | + | |
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| - | ===== SKY EXTRAS in June 2016 ===== | + | |
| - | * **Mercury** is high in the morning twilight. Look east. | + | |
| - | * **Conjunction** of the month: in the evening, look left and right of bright star red-orange star Antares in the Scorpio constellation (south sky): the bright red-orange twin to its right is Mars, and the bright yellow-white object just above and to its left is Saturn. Hint: come to the Open House June 4 and see them both. | + | |
| - | * **Challenge object** of the month: Saturn is now about as close as it ever gets to earth, and its rings are tilted about as far as they ever get tilted, so get to a decent-sized telescope (hint: Open House June 4) and try counting rings! | + | |
| - | * Best **comet** of the month: PANSTARRS C/2013 X1, should be easily visible in binoculars, in the eastern sky an hour before dawn. | + | |
| - | * (No great meteor showers this month.) | + | |
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| + | [[http://www.astronomy.com/observing/sky-this-week|Astronomy Magazine's Sky This Week]] | ||
