{"id":1057,"date":"2013-05-26T00:00:26","date_gmt":"2013-05-26T00:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/blog\/?p=1057"},"modified":"2013-05-25T16:52:37","modified_gmt":"2013-05-25T16:52:37","slug":"june-2013-astronomy-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/26\/june-2013-astronomy-events\/","title":{"rendered":"June 2013 astronomy events"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u00a1SkyCaramba! Weekly astronomy blog for the week ending June 1, 2013<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/26\/june-2013-astronomy-events\/moon-mercury-venus-together\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1061\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1061\" title=\"Moon, Mercury, Venus together\" src=\"http:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Moon-Mercury-Venus-together.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Moon-Mercury-Venus-together.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Moon-Mercury-Venus-together-300x158.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>June begins in the middle of that three-planet meet-up that started coming together in the last ten days of May. Mercury, Venus, and Jupiter are in the evening sky in the west just after sunset. Procyon is to the left of them. Capella is to the right. On the meridian around sunset is Arcturus. Vega is half-way up the sky in the east.<\/p>\n<p>By the 10<sup>th<\/sup>, Jupiter has dropped below the other two planets into the sunset. It\u2019s heading toward conjunction with the sun on the 19<sup>th<\/sup>. The moon is left of Mercury and Venus. Mercury is slowing down its climb into the evening sky and reversing as Venus catches up to it. Just a few nights later, Mercury has clearly dropped below Venus.<\/p>\n<p>Mercury is at greatest elongation from the sun on the 12<sup>th<\/sup>. It\u2019s 24.3\u00b0 east of the sun. The very next day, Venus is at perihelion. Its distance from the sun will be 0.718 astronomical units. The asteroid Vesta will pass 2.2\u00b0 from Mercury on the 17<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>The moon passes in front of the star Spica on the 18<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>The moon passes by Saturn on the 19<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>A few nights later, on the 23<sup>rd<\/sup>, the closest and brightest full moon of the year happens. The moon is at perigee just minutes before. The center of the moon will be 356,900 km from the center of the earth.<\/p>\n<p>By month\u2019s end, Altair is easy to spot in the east after sunset.<\/p>\n<p>Mars is a morning object this month. It becomes easier to see toward the end of the month. It\u2019ll be in the east a little before sunrise. Spot it left of similarly colored Aldebaran.<\/p>\n<p>Mercury reaches aphelion on the 29<sup>th<\/sup>. It will be 0.467 astronomical units from the sun.<\/p>\n<p>The June solstice is at 05:04UT on the 21<sup>st<\/sup>. The sun will be at its northernmost point in the sky at that time. The very next day at 16:12, the moon will be at its furthest south this month.<\/p>\n<p>You may be interested in a difficult to see meteor shower on the 15<sup>th<\/sup> and 16<sup>th<\/sup>. The June Lyrids originate from Lyra. It has been known to produce only about ten meteors per hour at best. Discovered in 1966, it isn\u2019t well studied. The best view will be after midnight when the moon will be set but Lyra will be up the rest of the night.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/meteorshowersonline.com\/showers\/june_lyrids.html\">http:\/\/meteorshowersonline.com\/showers\/june_lyrids.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The three planet meetup is ending, Mercury continues with its best show, the sun reaches its northernmost point, and maybe a meteor shower.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[150,29,88,5,386,25,4,142,152,614,83,17],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1057"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1063,"href":"https:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057\/revisions\/1063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}