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<\/figure><\/div>\n\nWhen to use this chart <\/strong><\/h5>\n\n1 June at 00:00 AEST (14:00 UT)<\/strong>
15 June at 23:00 AEST (13:00 UT)<\/strong>
30 June at 22:00 AEST (12:00 UT) <\/strong><\/p>\n\nThe chart accurately matches the sky on the dates and times shown for Sydney, Australia. The sky is different at other times as the stars crossing it set four minutes earlier each night. <\/p>\n\n
\n\nJUNE HIGHLIGHTS<\/strong><\/h5>\n\nRecommended equipment: Large telescope<\/strong><\/p>\n\nComet 81P\/Wild 2 is visible most of the night, rising in the early evening in Ophiuchus. Expected to be faint (11th magnitude) it might normally be difficult to track down. However, early in June it makes close calls to three globular star clusters that act as finders. On the evening of the 7th, Wild 2 is 0.5\u00b0 south of NGC 6356 and on the 10th it\u2019s 1.2\u00b0 north of NGC 6342. All this time it has been creeping up on M9, being closest on the evening of the 12th, only 0.2\u00b0 northwest of this bright globular. <\/p>\n\n
STARS AND CONSTELLATIONS<\/strong><\/h5>\n\nRecommended equipment: Naked eye<\/strong><\/p>\n\nAlpha and Beta Centauri are often called the \u2018Pointers\u2019, but if you draw a line from the stars towards the Southern Cross (Crux) it passes over the top. Alpha has a high proper motion and is moving towards Beta with this line gradually pointing further south. Around AD 4000 the stars will be about 2\u00b0 apart (half the current separation), with the line pointing at the centre of the Cross. Alpha will be closest to Beta in around AD 6200 \u2013 less than the diameter of the Moon away! <\/p>\n\n
THE PLANETS <\/strong><\/h5>\n\nRecommended equipment: Naked eye<\/strong><\/p>\n\nVenus has reached its maximum altitude above the northwest early-evening horizon. Venus and Mars start 10\u00b0 apart, narrowing to 4\u00b0 at month end. On 3 June, Mars passes in front of the Beehive Cluster with Venus following on 14 June. Saturn has now entered the evening sky, arriving around 23:00 mid-month, followed by Neptune around midnight. Jupiter is prominent in the predawn northeastern sky. Uranus is rising before dawn, passing Mercury as it departs from morning skies.<\/span><\/p>\n\n
15 June at 23:00 AEST (13:00 UT)<\/strong>
30 June at 22:00 AEST (12:00 UT) <\/strong><\/p>\n\n
The chart accurately matches the sky on the dates and times shown for Sydney, Australia. The sky is different at other times as the stars crossing it set four minutes earlier each night. <\/p>\n\n
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JUNE HIGHLIGHTS<\/strong><\/h5>\n\nRecommended equipment: Large telescope<\/strong><\/p>\n\nComet 81P\/Wild 2 is visible most of the night, rising in the early evening in Ophiuchus. Expected to be faint (11th magnitude) it might normally be difficult to track down. However, early in June it makes close calls to three globular star clusters that act as finders. On the evening of the 7th, Wild 2 is 0.5\u00b0 south of NGC 6356 and on the 10th it\u2019s 1.2\u00b0 north of NGC 6342. All this time it has been creeping up on M9, being closest on the evening of the 12th, only 0.2\u00b0 northwest of this bright globular. <\/p>\n\n
STARS AND CONSTELLATIONS<\/strong><\/h5>\n\nRecommended equipment: Naked eye<\/strong><\/p>\n\nAlpha and Beta Centauri are often called the \u2018Pointers\u2019, but if you draw a line from the stars towards the Southern Cross (Crux) it passes over the top. Alpha has a high proper motion and is moving towards Beta with this line gradually pointing further south. Around AD 4000 the stars will be about 2\u00b0 apart (half the current separation), with the line pointing at the centre of the Cross. Alpha will be closest to Beta in around AD 6200 \u2013 less than the diameter of the Moon away! <\/p>\n\n
THE PLANETS <\/strong><\/h5>\n\nRecommended equipment: Naked eye<\/strong><\/p>\n\nVenus has reached its maximum altitude above the northwest early-evening horizon. Venus and Mars start 10\u00b0 apart, narrowing to 4\u00b0 at month end. On 3 June, Mars passes in front of the Beehive Cluster with Venus following on 14 June. Saturn has now entered the evening sky, arriving around 23:00 mid-month, followed by Neptune around midnight. Jupiter is prominent in the predawn northeastern sky. Uranus is rising before dawn, passing Mercury as it departs from morning skies.<\/span><\/p>\n\n
Comet 81P\/Wild 2 is visible most of the night, rising in the early evening in Ophiuchus. Expected to be faint (11th magnitude) it might normally be difficult to track down. However, early in June it makes close calls to three globular star clusters that act as finders. On the evening of the 7th, Wild 2 is 0.5\u00b0 south of NGC 6356 and on the 10th it\u2019s 1.2\u00b0 north of NGC 6342. All this time it has been creeping up on M9, being closest on the evening of the 12th, only 0.2\u00b0 northwest of this bright globular. <\/p>\n\n
STARS AND CONSTELLATIONS<\/strong><\/h5>\n\nRecommended equipment: Naked eye<\/strong><\/p>\n\nAlpha and Beta Centauri are often called the \u2018Pointers\u2019, but if you draw a line from the stars towards the Southern Cross (Crux) it passes over the top. Alpha has a high proper motion and is moving towards Beta with this line gradually pointing further south. Around AD 4000 the stars will be about 2\u00b0 apart (half the current separation), with the line pointing at the centre of the Cross. Alpha will be closest to Beta in around AD 6200 \u2013 less than the diameter of the Moon away! <\/p>\n\n
THE PLANETS <\/strong><\/h5>\n\nRecommended equipment: Naked eye<\/strong><\/p>\n\nVenus has reached its maximum altitude above the northwest early-evening horizon. Venus and Mars start 10\u00b0 apart, narrowing to 4\u00b0 at month end. On 3 June, Mars passes in front of the Beehive Cluster with Venus following on 14 June. Saturn has now entered the evening sky, arriving around 23:00 mid-month, followed by Neptune around midnight. Jupiter is prominent in the predawn northeastern sky. Uranus is rising before dawn, passing Mercury as it departs from morning skies.<\/span><\/p>\n\n
Alpha and Beta Centauri are often called the \u2018Pointers\u2019, but if you draw a line from the stars towards the Southern Cross (Crux) it passes over the top. Alpha has a high proper motion and is moving towards Beta with this line gradually pointing further south. Around AD 4000 the stars will be about 2\u00b0 apart (half the current separation), with the line pointing at the centre of the Cross. Alpha will be closest to Beta in around AD 6200 \u2013 less than the diameter of the Moon away! <\/p>\n\n
THE PLANETS <\/strong><\/h5>\n\nRecommended equipment: Naked eye<\/strong><\/p>\n\nVenus has reached its maximum altitude above the northwest early-evening horizon. Venus and Mars start 10\u00b0 apart, narrowing to 4\u00b0 at month end. On 3 June, Mars passes in front of the Beehive Cluster with Venus following on 14 June. Saturn has now entered the evening sky, arriving around 23:00 mid-month, followed by Neptune around midnight. Jupiter is prominent in the predawn northeastern sky. Uranus is rising before dawn, passing Mercury as it departs from morning skies.<\/span><\/p>\n\n
Venus has reached its maximum altitude above the northwest early-evening horizon. Venus and Mars start 10\u00b0 apart, narrowing to 4\u00b0 at month end. On 3 June, Mars passes in front of the Beehive Cluster with Venus following on 14 June. Saturn has now entered the evening sky, arriving around 23:00 mid-month, followed by Neptune around midnight. Jupiter is prominent in the predawn northeastern sky. Uranus is rising before dawn, passing Mercury as it departs from morning skies.<\/span><\/p>\n\n