have a nice opportunity for a milky way arch with the crux and karana regions of the milky way in the south east and arching over to the southern summer constellations of gemini auriga taurus orion canis major and canis minor and this is a very faint region of the milky way as well these beautiful bright stars more than make up for the lackluster milky way we'll just swing a bit more to the north so by the middle of the night the southern summer constellations pretty much cross in the northern meridian the highest point they'll reach in the sky and as the night goes on they'll sink down into the northwest now for those of you that are very early risers or you've stayed out all night there's another opportunity for a milky way arch if i just turn off all these constellations so that you can see much better now the milky way arching over the south west and you also have the large and small magellanic clouds underneath the arch coming back to the evening skies and facing west very difficult to see venus from the southern hemisphere but you can easily spot mercury saturn and jupiter in the evening skies as the month goes by night by night you'll notice mercury climbing higher and closer to saturn reaches greatest eastern elongation on the seventh so that's when it's furthest away from the sun in the sky and as the month continues mercury and saturn sink down closer to the sun and become lost in the evening twilight and we're left with just jupiter at the end of the month being the only evening planet and facing east in the morning skies towards the end of the month you'll find mars and venus so venus has passed into the morning skies by the end of the month and joins mars as for conjunctions and close approaches this month at the very beginning of the month a waxing crescent moon passes by mercury on the third on the fourth it passes by saturn and then on the fifth closer to jupiter and that's in the southwest evening skies then right at the end of the month on the NUMBER_TOKENth a waning crescent moon joins mars and venus in the eastern morning skies new moon this month is on the second so any photographs you want to take in dark skies should be done at the start of the month and then full moon is on the NUMBER_TOKENth and it was known to the native american tribes as the wolf moon because the hungry wolves would be hulling into the sky at this time of year before we dive into the special events this month a quick message from the sponsors of today's video squarespace squarespace is the place to host your website online store gallery blog or if like me all of the above because my website has been with squarespace for years now and i use it for all of those things the online store is amazing everything is automated it's where i sell my astro workflow lightroom presets and it means i can spend more of my time doing creative things like taking photographs and making videos if you'd like to try squarespace head on over to URL_TOKEN forward slash allen you can start with one of their award-winning templates customize it to your heart's content and then when you're happy and you want your website to go live use the code allen at the checkout for NUMBER_TOKEN off your first purchase of a website or domain
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