This is not intended to be comprehensive - it is a quick guide to help you find a few things in the night sky without any equipment - just your eyes.
All of these are very bright and easy to find when walking around the village.
With the longest day on the 21st the nights are very short. So to see the night sky you need to get up early and stay up later. The planets have been good over the last few months but this month this is not the case.
The planets this month -
Mercury is very low in the w at sunset at the beginning of the month and at the end of the month it is higher but a lot dimmer and is hard to see.
Venus - The brightest object in the sky, after the (Sun and the Moon) - in beginning of the month rises at 3:30am in the East and 2:30am at the end of the month.
Mars is high in the SW at sunset 9:45pm and sets in the West – and rises at 10.15pm at the end of the month. As it travels further away it gets smaller and dimmer.
Jupiter is not in a good position and is very hard to see by eye
Saturn is not in a good position. I have add a chart with it close to the Moon on the 19th but and is very hard to see by eye.
The full Moon is on the 11th and rises at sunset about 3pm in the E.
The later dark skies makes harder to see the International Space Station passes (ISS). The brightest pass in about 1am on the 30th.
I have made or found the following charts to help you find: -
- 1st Venus
- 1st Moon, Mars and Leo
- 18th Mars and star Regulus
- 19th Moon ans Saturn
- 30th ISS pass
- Phases oh the Moon