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Monday, June 07, 2021

 

Thursday June 10 to Thursday June 17

The New Moon is Thursday, June 10. Saturn and Jupiter are visible late in the evening sky. Venus is visible in the evening twilight and is close to the crescent moon on the 12th. Mars forms a line with the bright stars Castor and Pollux and is bracketed by the Moon on the 13th and 14th.

The New Moon is Thursday, June 10.

Evening sky on Saturday June 12 showing the eastern sky as seen from Adelaide at 23:59 pm ACST (just before midnight). Saturn and Jupiter form a line in the late evening sky.
 
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 18:41 ACST  (90 minutes after sunset), on Saturday, June 12 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 12 looking north-west as seen from Adelaide at 17:54 ACST (45 minutes after sunset). Venus is low above the horizon close to the thin crescent Moon. The pair will fit easily into the field of view of 10x50 binoculars.
 
 
 
 
Similar views will be seen throughout Australia at the equivalent local time (45 minutes after sunset, click to embiggen).
Evening sky at 18:41 ACST (90 minutes after sunset), on Monday June 14 facing north-west as seen from Adelaide. 
 
Mars is a low above the horizon forming a line with the bright stars Pollux and Castor.  The Moon is not far from Mars.
 
 
 
Similar views will be seen elsewhere in Australia at the equivalent local time  (90 minutes after sunset)
 

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.  Venus is close to the crescent moon on the 12th and both will fit in a 10x50 binocular field.

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.On the 13th and 4th the thin crescent Moon brackets Mars.
   
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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