SUMMER in the UK and similar northern latitudes are the best time in the year to enjoy the scorpion of the Zodiacal constellation, The Scorpion. A constellation contains the beautiful star Antars. Red blood bright over the southern horizon, Antars is a prize that deserves to be tracked and this week, the moon helps refer to this.
The chart shows the scene looking south of London at 23:00 GMT on June 9. the moon You will wander in a constellation and Antaris will be unambiguous, as its amazing colors contrast beautifully with the silver light of the natural industrial satellite of the Earth.
Technically, the moon will remain in the waxy wax, but with 98 % of its visible surface, in fact, it will appear to us as the whole moon.
Antares itself is 15 star bright in the night sky. It is located about 550 light -years from Earth, and it contains about 15 times from the mass of the sun, about 680 times the size, and is about 76,000 times of energy.
From the southern hemisphere, in the middle of the evening, Antaris and the scorpion appear in the eastern sky. From Sydney on June 10, the moon and Aarsis will be side by side.
