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Sky Guide June 2016
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Length:
19 minutes
Released:
May 28, 2016
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Podcast episode
Description
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.
Released:
May 28, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode
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