Sky Chart - July : 2010

Sky chart details in Kannada

Watch out:   Watch out: Comet McHoltz may attain naked eye visibility around its perihelion on 4th July

• Moon and Venus on 15th

• Moon, Saturn and Mars on 16th

• Moon with Antares on 24th

• Moon pairs with Jupiter on 4th and 31st dawnMoon and  Venus on 15^th  

SUN 

• Moves from Gemini to Cancer; solar eclipse on 11th July not visible from India
  11th 10:39 pm I contact; 12th dawn 03:27am last contact
  Daily pictures of the sun may be seen at :
  http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data/realtime-images.html

MOON

• New moon on 12th at 00:10 Solar eclipse

• Last quarter on 4th; First quarter on 18th

• Apogee on 1st h; Perigee on 13th

PLANETS

• Mercury :
  visible at dusk in the first half

• Venus :
  visible at dusk; pairs with moon on 15th

• Saturn :
  Visible at dusk in Leo; pairs with Mars and moon on 16th

• Jupiter :
  Visible at dawn pairs with moon on 4th and 31st

• Mars :
  visible till about 9:00pm

• Uranus :
  barely visible at dawn in Aquarius

• Neptune :
  barely visible at dawn in Capricorn

Visit www.heavens–above.com  for  comets, ISS sightings, ephemeris and other celestial events

Sky map is valid for the month around 7 pm

Events of the month

• 1 Moon at apogee; Neptune and moon pair up

• 3 Moon and Uranus pair up

• 4 Last Quarter

• 6 Earth at aphelion

• 8 Moon pairs with Pleiades

• 11 Moon pairs with Mercury

• 12 New Moon at 00:10 solar eclipse

• 13 Venus pairs with moon; moon at perigee

• 17 Moon, Saturn and Mars form a small group

• 18 First Quarter ; moon pairs with Mars

• 24 Moon pairs with Antares

• 26 Full moon at 07:07

• 28 moon at apogee; moon pairs with Neptune

• 31 moon, Uranus and Jupiter form a small group

• 1 August Saturn and Mars pair up

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