Special to CosmicTribune.com, June 8, 2023

SATURDAY, JUNE 3
■ Full Moon (exact at 11:43 p.m. EDT). Look for orange Antares just 3° or 4° to the Moon’s upper right this evening.

SUNDAY, JUNE 4
■ Vega is the brightest star in the east-northeast after dark.

MONDAY, JUNE 5
■ Bright Arcturus shines pale yellow-orange high overhead toward the south these evenings.

TUESDAY, JUNE 6
■ As we count down the last two weeks to official summer (the solstice is on June 21st this year), the Summer Triangle stands high and proud in the east after dark. Its top star is bright Vega. Deneb is the brightest star to Vega’s lower left, by 2 or 3 fists at arm’s length

THURSDAY, JUNE 8
■ Vega is the brightest star high in the east after dark. Barely lower left of it is 4th-magnitude Epsilon Lyrae, the Double-Double. Epsilon forms one corner of a roughly equilateral triangle with Vega and Zeta Lyrae. Binoculars easily resolve Epsilon. And a 4-inch telescope at 100× or more should resolve each of Epsilon’s wide components into a tight pair.

FRIDAY, JUNE 9
■ The Big Dipper hangs high in the northwest as the stars come out. The Dipper’s Pointers, currently its bottom two stars, point lower right toward Polaris.
Venus says goodbye Pollux, hello Mars.
■ Saturn rises around 1 a.m. Saturday morning (daylight-saving time), followed less than a half hour later by the Moon, nearly last quarter and 6° or 7° to Saturn’s lower left.

SATURDAY, JUNE 10
■ Last-quarter Moon (exact at 3:31 p.m. EDT). The Moon rises tonight around 2 a.m. daylight-saving time, lower right of the Great Square of Pegasus and lower left of Saturn.