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.
Lunar Eclipse
There is Lunar eclipse this month – this is when the Moon passes into the Earths shadow – this is safe to watch. The full Moon is full on the 7th. It rises in the South East around 8pm. It will be close to the horizon - giving it an illusion that it is bigger.
It will rise fully eclipsed and will look red. This phase will end as it rises and you will be able to see the earths shadow on the moons surface. It will end about 9am.
The planets
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Mercury – is very low in NE at 5am just before sunrise but this is too low to to see by the 6th
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Venus – Rises at 3:30am in the NE at the beginning of the month and 5am and the end of the month
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Mars – not visible
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Jupiter - Rises at 2am in the NE at the beginning of the month and 12am at the end of the month
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Saturn - Rises at 9pm in the E at sunset and by the end of the month it rises at 7pm in the E and will be visible all night, and setting in the west at sunrise.
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Look out for the attached chart to help you find the Summer triangle. At sunset high in the SE.
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There are is a well placed and bright International Space Station passes (ISS) 0h the 20th this month at 20:23pm.
I have made or found the following charts to help you find: -
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3rd Mercury, Venus and Jupiter
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7th Lunar eclipse
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12 Moon and Pleiades
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16th Moon and Jupiter
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19th Moon and Venus
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20th International space station pass at 7:12pm
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The Summer Triangle and Cygus
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The phases of the Moon