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    Adrian Dening's Stars Over Somerset

    Wednesday, 11 June 2025 17:26

    Monday 16th to Sunday 22nd June 2025

     

    It's going to be a week of things appearing close to each other, starting with Mars sitting just above the bright (magnitude +1.3) star Regulus.  The date and time for your diary is Monday 16th, around 11pm and you will need to be looking towards the west, as Mars will be setting below the western horizon a little later.

    Saturn appears to be near a last quarter Moon in the early hours of Thursday 19th.  The pair will pop up above the eastern horizon around 2am.

    If you've brought your telescope out, a faint magnitude +7.8 planet Neptune will be located roughly half way between the two.

    Stay up until 4am - the Moon and Saturn will have drifted towards the south east while a bright planet Venus appears to the east in the dawn sky.

    Believe it or not, Saturday 21st is the Summer Solstice, when the Sun reaches is most northerly declination (or highest point).  Pity it doesn't really feel like it!

     

    Pop back outside again in the early hours of Sunday 22nd to see a 15%-lit waning crescent Moon close to Venus.  The pair will be rising above the east north east horizon around 3.30am and at this point, Venus will have a magnitude of around -4.1 which is very bright.

    www.starsoversomerset.com

    Screenshots courtesy of Stellarium

    Copyright Adrian Dening and Radio Ninesprings 2025

     

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