Another gathering, spread widely over the eastern horizon, and not awkwardly low to it like some of the recent events.
See the end note about enlarging illustrations. An arrow through a moving body shows its movement (against the starry background) from 2 days earlier to 2 days later. Saturn is exaggerated 150 times in size, to show the current attitude of its rings. The Sun is exaggerated 2 times in size. The Moon is exaggerated 4 times in size. It is shown at its apparent position for the location on Earth, displaced by parallax; the arrows are along its path as seen from the center of the Earth.
There is a “trio,” but the three objects that get to be within a 5.2° circle, at about 7 hours after the moment of our picture, are the bright waning Moon, dim Uranus (at or just below unaided-eye visibility), and the Pleiades cluster.
Also in the scene are Mars, Saturn, and – Neptune – those last two being at magnitude about 9 and findable with binoculars.
Back on Earth
I added a drawing at the end of the post of June 6 about last-quarter Moons and Caleb Gattegno and children addicted to reading.
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ILLUSTRATIONS in these posts are made with precision but have to be inserted in another format. You may be able to enlarge them on your monitor.
One way: right-click, and choose ”View image” or ”Open image in new tab”, then enlarge. Or choose ”Copy image”, then put it on your desktop, then open it. On an iPad or phone, use the finger gesture that enlarges (spreading with two fingers, or tapping and dragging with three fingers). Other methods have been suggested, such as dragging the image to the desktop and opening it in other ways.
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