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NEW moon occurs on June l0d. 04h. 26m. U.T. and full moon on June 25d. 15h. 08m. The following conjunctions with the moon take place: June 6d. 12h., Mars 4°N.; June 6d. 21h., Venus 3°N.; June 11d. 18h., Saturn 0·6° S.; June 16d. 21h., Jupiter 4° S. In addition to these conjunctions with the moon, Mercury is in conjunction with Saturn on June 24d. llh., Mercury being 2·2°N. On June 11d. 18h. 38m., Saturn is occulted by the moon, reappearance taking place at 19h. 29·8m. No occultations of stars take place during the month. Mercury rises about 20 minutes before sunrise on June 1 and sets about an hour after sunset on June 30. The planet is in superior conjunction on June 16. Venus is a conspicuous object in the eastern sky in the morning hours, rising at 2h. 22m. on June 1 and 1h. 30m. on June 30. It attains its greatest westerly elongation on June 24. Jupiter sets about lh. at the beginning of the month and at 23h. on June 30. Saturn is becoming difficult to observe and sets about an hour after the sun in the middle of June. There will be a partial eclipse of the moon on June 25, invisible at Greenwich, but visible in the antarctic regions, Australia and eastern Asia. Summer solstice is on June 21d. 19h.
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The Night Sky in June. Nature 155, 630 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/155630d0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/155630d0