Monday, June 1, 2015

Moon & Saturn, Venus & Jupiter

East or West, which ever way you look, tonight will present a sky show: Saturn is above and right of the nearly full moon in the east and Venus and Jupiter are the bright spots high in the northwest at sunset.  The Big Dipper is high overhead to the north, the pointer stars of the dippers end's always pointing toward Polaris, the current northern pole star for Earth.  The handle of the Dipper arcs to bright yellow Arcturus and then follows the spike to Spica, the alpha star of Virgo.
The two stars above bright Venus are Castor and Pollux, the twins of Gemini and the star to the left of Jupiter is Regulus, the heart of Leo. Saturn, in addition to hanging out with the Moon tonight, is just above and west of the 3 stars that are the head of Scorpio with the heart, red Antares, below.
While the short nights of late spring shrink your sky viewing time twilight is full of brilliant wonders right now, get out and check the sky, Tonight on Earth.

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