Last Quarter Moon
The Moon is at Last Quarter (or Third Quarter) – rising around midnight, and visible to the south after sunrise.
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Moon at Apogee
The Moon’s distance from Earth varies throughout its monthly orbit because the Moon’s orbit isn’t perfectly circular. Every month, the Moon’s eccentric orbit carries it to apogee – its most distant point from Earth – and then, some two weeks later, to perigee – the Moon’s closest point to Earth in its monthly orbit. - earthsky.org
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Inf. Conjunction of Mercury
Mercury passes very close to the Sun in the sky as its orbit carries it between the Sun and Earth. This happens once in 116 days (the synodic cycle of the planet), and over the course of a couple weeks, Mercury will change from appearing in the evening sky to appearing in the morning sky.
New Moon
New Moon. By the modern definition, New Moon occurs when the Moon and Sun are at the same geocentric ecliptic longitude. The part of the Moon facing us is completely in shadow then. Pictured here is the traditional New Moon, the earliest visible waxing crescent, which signals the start of a new month in many […]
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Conjunction of Venus & Moon
The Waxing Crescent Moon will appear about 2° 42' from the planet Venus in the west-northwestern sky at sunset on June 11th.
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Venus at Perihelion
The planet Venus is a Perihelion (its closest approach to the Sun) on this date.
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First Quarter Moon
The Moon is at First quarter on this date -it will be visible high in the southern sky in early evening.
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Summer Solstice
The summer solstice is the day when the Sun appears to reach its highest point in the sky during the year - it marks the start of summer in the Northern Hemisphere.
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Conjunction of Jupiter & Moon
The Moon appears in conjunction with Jupiter (and Saturn) in the southern morning sky on June 28th.
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International Asteroid Day
International Asteroid Day is a United Nations-recognized day observed each year on the anniversary of the Tunguska impact event of June 30, 1908.
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Last Quarter Moon
The Moon is at Last Quarter (or Third Quarter) – rising around midnight, and visible to the south after sunrise.
Earth at Aphelion
Earth will be at the farthest point in its orbit around the Sun on this date - 94,510,886 miles.
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Conjunction of Venus & Beehive
Venus is in conjunction with the Beehive Cluster low on the west-northwestern horizon at dusk.
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Mercury at Greatest Elongation
Mercury will reach its greatest separation from the Sun in its Jun–Jul 2021 morning apparition. It will be shining brightly at mag 0.3.