Astronomy - June 2015

This map unfolds the entire night sky from sunset (at right) until sunrise (at left).

Arrows and colored dots show motions and locations of solar system objects during the month.

The planets

in their orbits

Arrows show the inner planets’

monthly motions and dots depict

the outer planets’ positions at mid-

month from high above their orbits.

Jupiter’s moons

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Venus appears farthest

from the Sun in early

June’s evening sky

Sun

Mars

Jupiter

Venus approaches

within 0.3° of Jupiter

on June 30

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Europa

Callisto

Ganymede

Io

Jupiter

Venus

Greatest eastern

elongation

is June 6

Earth

Summer solstice

is June 21

Ceres

Mars

Solar conjunction

is June 14

Uranus

Saturn

Pluto

Neptune

Jupiter

Jupiter

Mercury

Greatest western

elongation is June 24

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Dots display positions

of Galilean satellites at

11 P.M. EDT on the date

shown. South is at the

top to match

the view

through a

telescope.

To locate the Moon in the sky, draw a line from the phase shown for the day straight up to the curved blue line.
Note: Moons vary in size due to the distance from Earth and are shown at 0h Universal Time.

Arrows show the inner planets’

monthly motions and dots depict

the outer planets’ positions at mid-

month from high above their orbits.