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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