{"id":807,"date":"2022-05-30T23:59:09","date_gmt":"2022-05-30T23:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/monthly\/?p=807"},"modified":"2022-05-29T20:53:26","modified_gmt":"2022-05-29T20:53:26","slug":"june-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/monthly\/june-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"June 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The\nmonth starts with a waning crescent moon at northern lunistice and\nsetting in the evening along with bright stars Procyon, Pollux,\nCastor, and Capella. Procyon is the bright star in the little dog\nCanis Minor. See Gomeisa to its right. Pollux and Castor are better\nknown, because they are the head stars in Gemini the twins. Capella\nis called the goat star and is part of Auriga, the goat herder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Visibility<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The\nmoon passes close to Pollux the next night. It’s in Cancer on the\n3rd<\/sup>.\nOn the night of the 5th<\/sup>,\nthe moon is a much thicker crescent in the Leo sickle. The bright\nstarit’s near is Regulus. The dimmer sickle star it’s close to is\nknown by a few names including Al Jabhah and Chertan. The moon will\noccult that star for viewers in Texas, Mexico, and other countries in\nCentral America. In local time zones, the occultation will be on\nSunday evening. The UT date is the 6th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Visibility<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The\nmoon is at first quarter and moving into Virgo on the 7th<\/sup>.\nWatch it wax and pass Porrima on the next night and then Spica the\nnight after that. An almost full moon approaches Antares in Scorpius\non the 12th<\/sup>.\nThat Sunday evening will be another night for the moon to pass in\nfront of a mid-brightness star that’s part of a constellation\noutline. Dschubba is the middle star in the head of Scorpius. The\neastern third of Canada and some states in the northeastern U.S. will\nget the view. So will many places in the North Atlantic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Visibility<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Southern\nhemisphere residents may find the full moon is especially bright on\nthe 14th<\/sup>.\nThe moon is at perigee on that day and at southern lunistice the\nnext. The moon is about 25% brighter when its closest to Earth than\nat its farthest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Northern<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Saturn\nrises around local midnight when the month begins. By mid morning you\nsee Jupiter and then Mars. The big planet and the red planet start\nthe month very close. Mars is moving eastward faster than Jupiter and\nthe two separate noticeably morning to morning. Venus rises closer to\ndawn and is also moving eastward at about the same pace as Mars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Southern<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

If\nyou’re in the southern hemisphere, you get to see Mercury in this\nlineup all month long. The planet seems to hold still compared to the\nstars behind it as Venus approaches until about the 10th<\/sup>.\nThen, Mecury starts to head sunward as though to try to get away from\nVenus. Around the middle of this month, Mercury’s easily seen by\nthose north of the equator too. The planet’s at greatest elongation\non the 16th<\/sup>. It’s 23.2\u00b0 west of the sun. And that’s your\nbest chance in a long time to see all five naked eye planets in the\nsky at once.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Another<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

But\nwait. There’s more! If you have binoculars or a small telescope, it’s\neven better. Neptune and Uranus are there too! All six of the objects\nthat the International Astronomical Union recognizes as planets are\nin the sky at the same time. You’ll need a star chart to help you\nfind Neptune and Uranus. You may also have to pick a date when the\nmoon isn’t near them. After all, they’re dim. Even a crescent moon\ncasts enough light to make things hard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nwaning moon will help you identify the planets in the second half of\nJune. It will be by Saturn on the morning of the 18th<\/sup>,\nJupiter on the 21st<\/sup>,\nMars on the 22nd<\/sup>,\nVenus on the 26th<\/sup>,\nand Mercury on the 27th<\/sup>.\nVenus is passing between the Pleiades and the Hyades at its pairing\nwith the moon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mars\nis at perihelion on the 21st<\/sup>.\nIt’s 1.381 astronomical units from the sun. That’s 206.6 million\nkilometers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nJune solstice is on the 21st<\/sup>\nat 09:14 UT.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nmoon’s circumstances this month:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Northern\nlunistice on the 1st<\/sup> at 26.9\u00b0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On\nthe equator going south on the 9th<\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Southern\nlunistice on the 15th<\/sup> at 26.9\u00b0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On\nthe equator going north on the 21st<\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Northern\nlunistice on the 29th<\/sup> at 26.9\u00b0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apogee\non the 2nd<\/sup>\nat 406,200\nkm \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perigee\non the 14th<\/sup> at 357,400km<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apogee\non the 29th<\/sup> at 406,600km<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First\nquarter is on the 7th<\/sup>\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Full\nmoon is on the 14th<\/sup>\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last\nquarter is on the 21st<\/sup>\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

New\nmoon is on the 29th<\/sup>\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The month starts with a waning crescent moon at northern lunistice and setting in the evening along with bright stars Procyon, Pollux, Castor, and Capella. Procyon is the bright star in the little dog Canis Minor. See Gomeisa to its right. Pollux and Castor are better known, because they are the head stars in Gemini […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-61"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/monthly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/monthly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/monthly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/monthly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/monthly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/monthly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":814,"href":"https:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/monthly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807\/revisions\/814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/monthly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/monthly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/monthly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}