the

those short but starry night some summer
are about to arrive

hey there stargazers I'm james oberg
director the key cassava plop

planetarium in Gainesville Florida

nom de Marie guess stronger for the
Cincinnati Observatory

let us be your guides to the sky summer
officially begins for the Northern

Hemisphere on Saturday June 21st

at 651 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time

but the skies are already loaded with
wonderful summer constellations and

planets

let's show you okay we've got her sky
set up for this week

and next 10 p.m. facing north where
you'll see the Little Dipper and it's

very highest

above the North Star in fact the
Northstars the start the

ended the handle the Little Dipper now
boulder pres not nearly as large

or bright as the Big Dipper but if you
have dark skies

you can see it handle is drawn from the
North Star through two very dim stars

which then connects the two more dim
stars to drop our the ball

and then another dim star and finally a
slightly brighter star name coach abt

finishes off the ball the Little Dipper

now the Big Dipper is a much brighter
and larger star pattern

and is directly to the Little Dipper is
left in the northwest

four stars markets Cup and three stars
markets handle

and once you found the Big Dipper you
can shoot an arrow through its hand or

across the sky

almost overhead and down into the
western sky to find one of the top three

brightest stars in the sky

Arc'teryx is the brightest star a boat
is the herdsmen

which looks something like a kite then
if you extend that arrow from our

terrace

it might land on Spike a the brightest
star Virgo

now I say might because this year

there 3.2 flight that will make good
targets for your arrow

the light in the middle is the star
spike a in this that I a constellation

Virgo

forty degrees to spike as right as the
noticeably brighter

red planet Mars then about 25 degrees to
the left a spike it is the ringed planet

Saturn

now saturn has also brighter than spike
and if you look carefully

saturn has slightly more yellow an
appearance take a look

and see for yourself so you're probably
asking which is which

n how can I be sure well the moon will
be doing it

pointer thing over the next week or so
cell is let's start on May 31st

with a three day old moon below Jupiter
then on june third and fourth

the moon will bracket Regulus the
brightest star in Leo the Lion

then on June 7 Mars will be just above a
waxing gibbous moon

but Mars will be bright enough to
compete with the light up the moon

the next night the 8th June a bigger and
brighter moon will be just to the right

of spike

and the moon will probably overwhelm
spike a on the 9th and 10th

the moon will be on either side up
Saturday and the next night

a nearly full moon will be above and
Terry's the brightest star of summer

scorpion

if you continue turning and face East

you'll see the three incredibly bright
stars which marked the point

up the summer triangle the brightest is
Vega in Lyra the harp

the second brightest Altair inequality
Eagle

and third brightest Dennett in Cygnus
the Swan

and every year as summer begins we
always see these three celestial

Dazzlers

rising over the eastern horizon
announcing but summer is here

so there you have it every direction you
looked you'll see wonderful stars

as we await the beginning of summer 2014
in the south

Scorpius in the east the three brilliant
stars on the summer triangle

Vega Dana an Altair in the north

both the little and big dippers then
following the handle the Big Dipper in

the southwest

are terrorists and then spike a with the
planet mars

and Saturn on either side and finally

hugging the western horizon jupiter
below Leo the Lion

both beating us farewell and in the
morning sky

in the east beats is still blazing away
and will daily approach the plea

eighties

to give you a bit of a preview of all
Scots

summer nights are short but this
summer's going to show you what's up

wonderful story cites so I remember to
keep

looking up

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