Planets of the Month – June 2024

By Erich Karkoschka

There are NO planets visible in the evening except for Mercury starting June 24th around 8 pm.

Saturn rises around 1 am, and just before midnight by the end of June. It is well up at dawn, visible with a thin ring only 2 degrees tilted.

Mars follows between 1 and 2 am.

Jupiter becomes visible again at dawn after June 5th.

Venus is moving into the evening sky and will become visible in early July.

The Moon shows a thin crescent on June 7th below Castor and Pollux. It occults Saturn on June 27th at 9 am, visible in a telescope since the Moon is easy to find. The exit at 10 will be more difficult because the moon will be only 14 degrees high and the location at the lunar dark limb will be hard to find.