Sky Guide June 2016

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.