Local Sky Events
July
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- Moon is third quarter Jul 7th, new on Jul 14th, first quarter on 21st, and Full Moon Jul 29th.
- July 4, 45 minutes before sunrise, Mars will shine below the Pleiades star cluster. Zeroing in on Mars, will find the blue planet Uranus a scant 7 minutes of arc above Mars. Use binoculars to easily separate these two colorful planets, blue and red.
- July 6 the Earth will reach aphelion, the farthest from the sun this year at 94.5 million miles, which is 3.4% farther from the sun then it is in January.
- Brilliant Venus is easy to find above the Western horizon shining in the early evening sky.
- Jupiter heads toward the Northwestern horizon and its ultimate conjunction with the sun. It will be difficult to find after the 10th of July.
- Mercury disappears from the northwestern evening sky and reappears in the East-Northeastern sky on the 27th about 75 minutes before sunrise. By August it will rise 90 minutes before the sun at magnitude -0.4.
Check back often for updates
- Moon is third quarter Jul 7th, new on Jul 14th, first quarter on 21st, and Full Moon Jul 29th.
- July 4, 45 minutes before sunrise, Mars will shine below the Pleiades star cluster. Zeroing in on Mars, will find the blue planet Uranus a scant 7 minutes of arc above Mars. Use binoculars to easily separate these two colorful planets, blue and red.
- July 6 the Earth will reach aphelion, the farthest from the sun this year at 94.5 million miles, which is 3.4% farther from the sun then it is in January.
- Brilliant Venus is easy to find above the Western horizon shining in the early evening sky.
- Jupiter heads toward the Northwestern horizon and its ultimate conjunction with the sun. It will be difficult to find after the 10th of July.
- Mercury disappears from the northwestern evening sky and reappears in the East-Northeastern sky on the 27th about 75 minutes before sunrise. By August it will rise 90 minutes before the sun at magnitude -0.4.
See our Links page - Sky Watching - for other events.
See Sky and Telescope Magazine (The Sky at a Glance) for more events.