As a bonus, see if you can pick out the orange first-magnitude star Aldebaran, situated about 7 degrees to the left of Mercury. And 3.5 degrees to its upper left, you might also get a glimpse of the now exceedingly thin crescent moon, only 3% illuminated. Last but certainly not least, on June 27, about 30 to 40 minutes before sunrise, use binoculars to scan the east-northeast horizon in the brightening dawn twilight and see if you can catch Mercury, which will have brightened to magnitude -0.4. You'll be able to fit all three in the same field of view of a standard pair of 7-power binoculars. And on this same morning, hovering a half dozen degrees above them, will be the beautiful Pleiades. local daylight time on June 26 to spot an eye-catching celestial tableau involving a slender crescent moon hovering 2.5 degrees to the left of Venus. It will be well worth setting your alarm clock for around 5 a.m. Night sky, June 2022: What you can see this month Best telescopes 2022: Top picks for viewing planets, galaxies, stars and more See a 'planetary breakup' of 5 planets in June Then, from June 23 to 25, the waning crescent moon will occupy the broad space between Mars and Venus, and we could then imagine it serving as a proxy for our home planet - a sort of ersatz Earth - to help complete the planetary sequence. On the following morning (Wednesday, June 22), the moon will come to within 5 degrees to the west (right) of Mars. Moving outward from Jupiter, you'll see Io, followed by Europa, then Callisto and, finally, the largest of the four, Ganymede. If you have a telescope, it will be well worth checking out Jupiter to see all four Galilean moons - arranged not in a straight line but in a zigzag configuration, all on one side of the planet. Then, on Tuesday (June 21), as we transition from spring to summer, take note of the last quarter ("half") moon situated 5 degrees to the lower right of Jupiter. On Saturday (June 18), for instance, a waning gibbous moon will be positioned 6 degrees to the lower right of Saturn. (Your clenched fist held at arm's length is roughly equal to 10 degrees.) Through the end of June, Mercury remains about the same altitude in bright twilight as it continues to brighten.Īdding to this remarkable planet array is Earth's moon, which will pass through the general vicinity of all five planets in the coming days, making identifying a particular planet on a given morning much easier. Look for it about 10 degrees to Venus' lower left. But on June 16, Mercury was at its greatest elongation, 23 degrees west of the sun, at magnitude 0.6, now making it marginally visible to the unaided eye very low in the east-northeast about 30 to 40 minutes before sunrise. Back on May 21, it was at inferior conjunction and still far too dim to be seen low in the dawn sky when June began. Mercury is a latecomer to the morning planet scene. Binoculars will help to show the Pleiades star cluster 9 degrees to the left of Venus before morning twilight gets too bright. At magnitude -3.9, Venus outshines its nearest competitor in brilliance, Jupiter, some fourfold. Venus rises around the time of dawn's first glow, near 3:30 a.m. You'll recognize Mars by its distinctive orange-yellow hue. local daylight time and now shines at magnitude 0.5 - a match for Achernar, the ninth-brightest star in Earth's sky. It rises in the east shortly before 2 a.m. Mars is finally beginning to call attention to itself as it approaches Earth and continues to brighten. When looking through a telescope, you may notice that the planet's western limb is slightly less illuminated than its eastern limb this month. The big planet comes to western quadrature (90 degrees west of the sun) on June 29. It glows at a brilliant magnitude -2.4 - more than 2.5 times brighter than Sirius, the brightest star in Earth's sky. It's in western Pisces, rising around 1:30 a.m. At the first light of dawn, Saturn is well placed for viewing in the southeast or south-southeast sky. The planet's famous rings can be glimpsed with a small telescope magnifying at least 30 power. To the naked eye, Saturn looks like a bright, yellow-white "star" shining with a sedate glow in the relatively dim zodiacal constellation Capricornus. Saturn is primed for autumn evenings in 2022, but it's now rising before midnight local daylight time. Dazzling Venus makes its appearance at the break of dawn, followed about 30 or 40 minutes before sunup by the innermost planet, Mercury. If you take a photograph of the five-world fiesta, let us know! You can send images and comments in to how the lineup will appear, starting with the "lead" planet, Saturn, which will make its appearance around the middle of the night and then continue into the predawn hours with Jupiter and then Mars.
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