Asteroid 3 Juno will be at opposition on July 26. Here is the finger chart on page 126 of Astronomical Calendar 2026.
At magnitude 9, Juno is at least 3 magnitudes too dim for the naked eye. It would be interesting to know whether it can be just discerned with powerful binoculars. Stars in the chart are as dim as mag 10. You’d have to look on more than one night and note a “star” that moved – the clue by which this and the other early asteroids were discovered.
Juno’s oppositions are always close to the celestial equator, as explained with another illustrations in the Astronomical Calendar.
We’re going to have some more to say about recently named asteroids.
Earthjustice department
That environmentalist group says “Hit Pause on Data Centers in Space.”
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