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  Sky Calendar -- June 2025
1 Venus at westernmost elongation at 3h UT (46° from Sun, morning sky). Mag. −4.3.
1 Moon near Mars at 12h UT (evening sky). Mag. 1.3.
1 Venus at dichotomy (D-shape) at 22h UT (morning sky).
Dichotomy (Wikipedia)
2 Moon near Regulus at 4h UT (evening sky).
3 First Quarter Moon at 3:41 UT.
6 Moon near Spica at 15h UT (evening sky). Occultation visible from Antarctica and Tasmania.
Lunar occultation of Spica (In-The-Sky)
7 Moon at apogee (farthest from Earth) at 11h UT (distance 405,554km; angular size 29.5').
10 Moon near Antares at 12h UT (evening sky). Occultation visible from Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and eastern Indonesia.
Lunar occultation of Antares (In-The-Sky)
11 Full Moon at 7:45 UT.
17 Mars 0.7° NNE of Regulus at 18h UT (evening sky). Mag. 1.4.
18 Last Quarter Moon at 19:20 UT.
19 Moon near Saturn at 2h UT (morning sky). Mag. 1.0.
21 June solstice at 2:40 UT. The time when the Sun reaches the point farthest north of the celestial equator marking the start of summer in the Northern Hemisphere and winter in the Southern Hemisphere.
June Solstice (Wikipedia)
Equinoxes and Solstices from Space (NASA)
22 Moon near Venus at 5h UT (morning sky). Mag. −4.2.
23 Moon near the Pleiades at 4h UT (morning sky).
23 Moon at perigee (closest to Earth) at 4:46 UT (distance 363,178km; angular size 32.9').
24 Jupiter at conjunction with the Sun at 15h UT. The largest planet passes into the morning sky.
25 New Moon at 10:32 UT. Start of lunation 1268.
26 Moon near Castor at 14h UT (evening sky).
26 Moon near Pollux at 20h UT (evening sky).
27 Moon near Mercury at 8h UT (25° from Sun, evening sky). Mag. 0.2.
27 Moon near Beehive Cluster (M44) at 20h UT (evening sky).
29 Moon near Regulus at 13h UT (evening sky).
30 Moon near Mars at 2h UT (evening sky). Mag. 1.5.
All times Universal Time (UT).
  • US Eastern Daylight Time = UT − 4 hours.
  • US Pacific Daylight Time = UT − 7 hours.
  • Australian Eastern Standard Time = UT + 10 hours
  • Singapore Standard Time = UT + 8 hours.

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