Awesome Astronomy

What to look out, and up, for in June. Our tour of the highlights of this month’s skies begins with the planets on offer to observers and imagers: Jupiter Mars Saturn Next up is the meteor showers and we have quite a few daytime showers that can be spotted in the pre-dawn sky as well as some more usual showers in June: Arietids Zeta Perseids June Lyrids June Bootids Then we each take a deep sky pick from our list of favourites for this time of year: Ralph - M13 The Great Globular Cluster in Hercules Paul - M8 The Lagoon Nebula Jeni - M57 The Ring Nebula And we finish this sky guide with June’s moon phases and planetary conjunctions.