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Volume 22 -- Issue 6
Sky Watch Calendar -- June 2016
02.
Neptune at West Quadrature
03.
Moon at Perigee - 361,140 km
Saturn at Opposition
Very Thin Waning Crescent Moon
   Near Mercury
04.
Jupiter at East Quadrature
05.
New Moon
Mercury at Western Elongation
06.
Venus at Superior Conjunction
07.
Cassini Spacecraft Titan Flyby
08.
Thin Waxing Crescent Moon
   Near M-44 (Beehive Cluster)
10.
Mercury Near the Pleiades
11.
Moon at Aescending Node
12.
First Quarter Moon
15.
Moon at Apogee - 405,024 km
20.
Full Moon
June Solstice 22:34 UT (5:34 pm CDT)
Sun Does Not Enter the Astrological
   Sign of Cancer
21.
Sun DoesEnters the Astronomical
   Sign of Gemini
26.
Moon at Descending Node
Waning Gibbous Moon Near Neptune
27.
Last Quarter Moon
28.
Waning Crescent Moon Near Uranus
30.
Mars Ends Retrograde Motion
Asteroid Day

2016 Moon Phases from NASA GSFC and LRO

(These are videos on YouTube)