Today:
June’s Full “Strawberry” Moon might not be red, but it will seem to chase Antares across the sky, starting as darkness follows the twilight by 10 o’clock. While the Moon starts out low in the southeast, Antares is already a little higher in the south-southeast. Continuing across the southern sky through the night, June’s Full Moon will remain low in the sky, the opposite of the June Sun, whose path arcs high.
Tuesday:
Very early risers, or night owls, will have an interesting view in the east-northeast as the first of twilight blushes along the horizon from 3:15 to about 4 o’clock tomorrow morning. The pale red Mars continues to slowly emerge from the Sun’s glow, seen just below the Seven Sisters, or the Pleiades. Close to 4 o’clock, the reddish star Aldebaran peaks above the horizon, currently brighter than Mars, though both will disappear in the brightening dawn.
Wednesday:
The nearly Full Moon again bathes the skies in moonlight, subdued by its extremely low position in the south. This leaves the northwestern skies a bit darker, certainly enough so to find the outline of Leo, the Lion, preparing to exit the heavens in a few more weeks. You’ll also find the brilliant Venus to the right of Leo’s brightest star, Regulus. The two pass close to each other next week.