Sky Guide June 2016
May 28, 2016•19 min
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Episode description
What to look out, and up, for in June.
Our tour of the highlights of this month’s skies begins with the planets on offer to observers and imagers:
- Jupiter
- Mars
- Saturn
Next up is the meteor showers and we have quite a few daytime showers that can be spotted in the pre-dawn sky as well as some more usual showers in June:
- Arietids
- Zeta Perseids
- June Lyrids
- June Bootids
Then we each take a deep sky pick from our list of favourites for this time of year:
- Ralph - M13 The Great Globular Cluster in Hercules
- Paul - M8 The Lagoon Nebula
- Jeni - M57 The Ring Nebula
And we finish this sky guide with June’s moon phases and planetary conjunctions.
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