Stargazers will have plenty of opportunities this calendar month as , ply the weather condition behaves , we should be able to see Mercury , Jupiter , Saturn , Venus AND Mars in the shine night sky .

As aguide , the brightest star topology are equal to zero magnitude , whereas the very bright objects in the sky ( Venus , Jupiter , the synodic month and the sunlight ) have negative magnitude act . you could also use your helping hand as a slightly rough but surprisingly useful manner toestimate angular distances . Obviously everyone has dissimilar sized hands , but generally speaking your clinched clenched fist held at limb ’s duration is roughly adequate to 10 degrees of the sky . If you stretch out your thumb and little finger , the distance in between is around 25 degree . Your middle three finger held together span around 5 degrees , and the breadth of your pinky is about 1 grade . It ’s inaccurate , but it will help you quickly find oneself object in the sky .

June 7

If you gaze toward the south - southwest part of the sky on the eve of the 7th , you should be able-bodied to see the lunation with Mars glowing hopeful around 3 degrees above it . At the bit it ’s 77.9 million knot away and has a order of magnitude of around -0.4 , so it ’s pretty shiny , but it will lento fade as it gets further forth .

June 10

Around an hour after sundown you should be able to see a full moon and Saturn in the south - southeast part of the sky . Saturn will appear as a very bright champion - like object around 5 degrees to the upper right field of the moon .

June 19

You should be able to see Mercury in the early morning sky as it passes between the sun and Earth ( inferior connective ) .

June 24

If you fancy getting up around an hr - hour and a half before sunrise , you ’re in for a real treat . A very slim crescent synodic month can be find toward the Orient - northeast sensible horizon , and around 3 degree to the upper left of it will be Venus . If you ’ve got a pair of field glasses ready to hand , about 10 degrees above Venus is the Pleiades headliner bunch , but the sky want to still be dreary so as to see it .

June 28

If you face to the sky around an hour after sunset , you should see a slither of the moonshine toward the west - northwest skyline . You ’ll then be able to find Jupiter floating around 5 degrees immediately above the moon . Towards the death of July , Jupiter will make the transition from being visible in the evening sky to the first light .

Check out this video from space.com as a guide to the sky in June :

Hat peak : space.com