Astroblog: Thursday June 1 to Thursday June 8

Wednesday, May 31, 2023

Thursday June 1 to Thursday June 8

The Full Moon is Sunday, June 4. The Moon occults the moderately bright star Delta Scorpii (Dschubba) in the twilight on the early evening of the 3rd. Saturn is now rising just after local midnight and is high in the morning sky above the pair of Jupiter and Mercury. Venus is prominent from the evening twilight to early evening. On June 1 Mars is on the outskirts of the Beehive open cluster, on the 2nd and 3rd it is in the heart of the Beehive. At this time Venus forms a line with the bright stars Castor and Pollux.

The Full Moon is Sunday, June 4. The Moon occults the moderately bright star Delta Scorpii in the twilight on the early evening of the 3rd. The Moon is at Perigee, when it is closest to the Earth, on the 7th.

Morning sky on Saturday, June 3 as seen from Adelaide at 05:42 ACST, (90 minutes before sunrise, click to embiggen). Saturn is high in the sky above Jupiter and Mercury. The inset is the telescopic view of Saturn at this time.

Similar views will be seen from the rest of Australia at the equivalent local time (90 minutes before sunrise).

Evening sky on Saturday, June 3 as seen from Adelaide at 18:11 ACST, 60 minutes after sunset (click to embiggen). Venus forms a line with Castor and Pollux. Mars is in front of the Beehive cluster.

Similar views will be seen from the rest of Australia at the equivalent local time (60 minutes after sunset).

Evening sky on Friday, June 2 as seen from Adelaide at 18:42 ACST, (90 minutes after sunset, click to embiggen). Mars is in the heart of the beehive cluster. The inset is the binocular view of Mars and the cluster. More details can be found at this site.

Similar views will be seen from the rest of Australia at the equivalent local time (90 minutes after sunset).

Evening sky on Saturday, June 3 as seen from Adelaide at 17:59 ACST, shortly before nautical twilight (click to embiggen). The Moon is about to cover Delta Scorpii. The inset is egress at 18:52 CST.

For specific times for other cities and charts see my occultation site.

Similar views will be seen from the rest of Australia at the roughly the equivalent local time.

Whole sky on Saturday, June 3 as seen from Adelaide at 18:42 ACST, 90 minutes after sunset (click to embiggen). Mars is visible above the north western horizon and Venus is setting in the west.The nearly Moon is high above the western horizon in the head of the Scorpion, occulting delta Scorpii.

Orion the Hunter, is setting on the western horizon while Sirius is still prominent low in the western sky. Scorpius is rising in the east.

Between the bright star Canopus and the Southern Cross are another wealth of binocular objects to discover. However the Moons light is washing them out.

Elsewhere in Australia will see a similar view at the equivalent time (90 minutes after sunset).

Mercury is heading towards the horizon in the morning twilight, and is below Jupiter. As the week goes on Mercury leaves Jupiter behind in the morning twilight.

Venus climbs still higher in the twilight. On the 2nd-3rd Venus forms a line with the bright stars Castor and Pollux.

Mars On June 1 Mars is on the outskirts of the Beehive open cluster. On the 2nd-3rd it is in the heart of the cluster.

Jupiter is prominent in the morning sky, with Mercury below it. As the week goes on Jupiter climbs higher in the morning twilight leaving Mercury behind .

Saturn climbs higher in the morning skies and is rising just after local 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/

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