Monday, May 31, 2021
Thursday June 3 to Thursday June 10
The New Moon is Thursday, June 10. Saturn and Jupiter are visible late in the evening sky. Venus is visible in the evening twilight. Mercury is lost in the twilight. Mars forms a line with the bright stars Castor and Pollux.
The New Moon is Thursday, June 10. Apogee, when the Earth is furthest from the earth, is on June 8.
The insets shows the telescopic views of Jupiter and Saturn at this time.
Similar views will be seen elsewhere in Australia at the equivalent local time (just before midnight), click to embiggen.
Whole sky at 18:42 ACST (90 minutes after sunset), on Saturday, June 5 as seen from
Adelaide.
Similar views will be seen elsewhere at the equivalent local time (90 minutes after sunset). click to embiggen.
Evening twilight sky on Saturday June 5 looking north-west as seen from
Adelaide
at 17:39 ACST (30 minutes after sunset). Venus is low above the horizon.
Similar views will be seen throughout Australia at the equivalent local time (30 minutes after sunset, click to embiggen).
Evening sky at 18:10 ACST (60 minutes after sunset), on Saturday June 5 facing north-west as seen from Adelaide.
Mars is a low above the horizon forming a line with the bright stars Pollux and Castor.
Similar views will be seen elsewhere in Australia at the equivalent local time
Mercury is lost in the twilight.
Venus is becoming more visible low in the twilight. I have been able to see Venus from 15 minutes after sunset and it is easily seen 30 minutes after sunset.
Mars is readily visible in the evening sky above the north-western horizon in the early evening. Mars is in Gemini forming a line with the bright stars Pollux and Castor.
Jupiter is high in the morning sky forming a line with Saturn above the north-western horizon. Jupiter is now above the eastern horizon before midnight.
Printable PDF maps of the Eastern sky at 10 pm AEST, Western sky at 10 pm AEST. For further details and more information on what's up in the sky, see Southern Skywatch.
Star Map via Virtual sky. Use your mouse to scroll around and press 8 when your pointer is in the map to set to the current time.
Cloud cover predictions can be found at SkippySky.
Here is the near-real time satellite view of the clouds (day and night) http://satview.bom.gov.au/
Venus is becoming more visible low in the twilight. I have been able to see Venus from 15 minutes after sunset and it is easily seen 30 minutes after sunset.
Mars is readily visible in the evening sky above the north-western horizon in the early evening. Mars is in Gemini forming a line with the bright stars Pollux and Castor.
Jupiter is high in the morning sky forming a line with Saturn above the north-western horizon. Jupiter is now above the eastern horizon before midnight.
Saturn is now rising well before midnight. It is still best in the morning sky and is easily seen near Jupiter above the north-western horizon.
Printable PDF maps of the Eastern sky at 10 pm AEST, Western sky at 10 pm AEST. For further details and more information on what's up in the sky, see Southern Skywatch.
Star Map via Virtual sky. Use your mouse to scroll around and press 8 when your pointer is in the map to set to the current time.
Cloud cover predictions can be found at SkippySky.
Here is the near-real time satellite view of the clouds (day and night) http://satview.bom.gov.au/
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