This Week In The Creator's Skies

When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers,

the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;

What is man, that thou art mindful of him?

Psalm 8:3,4

 (From Astronomy and Sky & Telescope Magazines) 

Sunday, June 22
The Moon passes 7° north of Venus at 5 A.M. EDT. An hour before sunrise the pair is easy to see in the east, nearly 20° high in the constellation Aries.

Venus is the brightest point of light in the sky.
Late these evenings, look south-southeast to south for orange Antares, the Betelgeuse of summer. Both are 1st-magnitude "red" supergiants, which are actually more like bright orange.
Around and upper right of Antares are the other, whiter stars of upper Scorpius forming their familiar, distinctive pattern. The rest of the Scorpion runs down from Antares, then left, then up to the stinging tail with its Cat's Eyes pair. Left of there is the Teapot of Scorpius.
Monday, June 23
The Moon reaches perigee at 12:44 A.M. EDT. This is when our satellite lies closest to our planet, and today the Moon sits just 225,668 miles away. Right after dark, spot Arcturus way up high toward the southwest. Three fists below it is Spica. A fist and a half to Spica's lower right is four-star Corvus, the springtime Crow, sliding down and away.
Tuesday, June 24
Jupiter is in conjunction with the Sun at 11 A.M. EDT. Planets in solar conjunction are not visible from Earth, as they lie on the opposite side of the Sun from our planet as viewed from above (or below) the plane of our solar system.
Wednesday, June 25
New Moon occurs at 6:32 A.M. EDT.
Thursday, June 26

The planet Mercury sits 3.5° to the left of a two-day-old crescent Moon in the evening sky tonight.
Friday, June 27
The Moon now passes 3° north of Mercury at 2 A.M. EDT.
Saturday, June 28

Dangling down from bright Vega are stars of the little constellation Lyra, forming a small triangle and parallelogram. Vega is the brightest star of the triangle, which is about the size of a thumbtip at arm's length. The parallelogram hangs from the triangle's lowest point.
The two stars forming the bottom of the parallelogram are Beta and Gamma Lyrae, Sheliak and Sulafat. They're currently lined up almost vertically when you face them. Beta is the one on top.