This is Bob Moler with Ephemeris for Wednesday, June 26th. Today the Sun will be up for 15 hours and 33 minutes, setting at 9:32, and it will rise tomorrow at 5:59. The Moon, 2 days before last quarter, will rise at 12:58 tomorrow morning.
Let’s find out where the naked-eye planets have wandered off to this week. Venus and Mercury are too close to the direction of the Sun to be seen. Both are on the evening side of the Sun, but lost in its glare. Venus will appear in the evening sky next month. By 5:15 tomorrow morning, or about 45 minutes before sunrise, Saturn will be in the southeast just above and left of the Moon, and Mars will be lower in the east, and Jupiter will be very low in the east-northeast. Saturn will be a bit dimmer this year and next due to its rings being nearly edge on to us and not reflecting as much light. Saturn will rise at 1:15 am, Mars at 3:07 am, and Jupiter at 4:19 am.
The astronomical event times given are for the Traverse City/Interlochen area of Michigan (EDT, UT–4 hours). They may be different for your location.
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The Moon as it might appear in binoculars or a small telescope at 5 AM tomorrow morning, June 27th 2024. Selected features are labeled. Created using Stellarium, LibreOffice Draw, and GIMP.
The Moon, Saturn, Mars and Jupiter as they might be seen low in the east and southeastern sky at 5:15 AM, or about 45 minutes before sunrise, tomorrow morning June 27, 2024. Saturn will rise at 1:03 AM, Mars at 2:59 AM, and Jupiter at 4:09 AM. Click or tap on the image to enlarge it. Created using Stellarium.
Telescopic Saturn and Jupiter (north up) as they would be seen in a small telescope at 5 AM June 27th 2024 with the same magnification. Apparent diameters: Saturn 17.8″, its rings 41.4″; Mars, too small to be represented here, is 5.3″; Jupiter 33.5″. Note the ” means seconds of arc, or 1/3600th of a degree. Created using Cartes du Ciel (Sky Charts).
The naked-eye planets and the Moon at sunset and sunrise on a single night, starting with sunset on the right on June 26, 2023. The night ends on the left with sunrise on the 27th. Click or tap on the image to enlarge it. Created using my LookingUp app and GIMP.
This is an ephemeris of the Sun Moon and naked eye planet positions for today and tomorrow, June 26th and 27th 2024. Some of the columns are self-explanatory, others not. The transit column is the time that the body crosses the meridian and is due south. Elong, for elongation, is the angle between the Sun and that body. RA is right ascension, which is the object’s east-west position on the celestial sphere. Dec is declination which is the north-south position of the object on the celestial sphere. R is the distance of that object from the Sun in astronomical units. An astronomical unit is about 93 million miles or 150 million kilometers. And Delta is the distance of that object from the Earth, also in astronomical units. I omit the ‘m’ in am and pm for compactness. The data was generated using my LookingUp for DOS app and displayed by my Ephemeris Helper app.
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