June 2026

June 2026 Summary

June started off with a lot of cloud and rain, which made viewing and photography difficult, at best, and impossible, at worst. This weather pattern repeated a few times during the month, that also saw heatwaves that broke temperature records for June in England and many parts of Europe.

Sun

June is traditionally the best month in England for solar viewing and photography. It is even better when the sun is active. I used my 127mm Maksutov and DSLR camera combination at times.

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Moon

The moon was difficult in the evening sky, as the summer solstice approached.

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Planets

Jupiter had sunk into the evening twilight. Venus was in the evening sky, with decreasing phase and increasing disc size but was poorly placed.

·       Venus June 18^th

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Dwarf Planets/Asteroids

I did not photograph any asteroids nor dwarf planets.

Constellations

I did not photograph any constellations.

Deep Sky

Due to the lack of true darkness, June is not a good month, so I concentrated on some of the brighter objects.

·       M10 in Ophiuchus:

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·       M14 in Ophiuchus

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·       M107 in Ophiuchus

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·       M9 in Ophiuchus

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·       M26 in Scutum

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·       M17 in Sagittarius

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Transient Events

 

Venus and Jupiter were getting closer in the sky, reaching their closest point on June 9th.

 

·       Venus  and Jupiter June 4^th

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·       Venus and Jupiter June 9^th

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·       Venus and Jupiter June 10^th

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·       Venus and Jupiter June 13^th

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·       Moon and Venus June 18^th

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June 2026 Photo Album

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Messier Objects

June 30^th 1400 GMT Sun

I took still images and videos of the Sun with the Seestar S50.

June 28^th 2145 GMT Moon

I took a full disc video of the moon that I stacked later.

June 28^th 1200 GMT Sun

I took a full disc and a closeup video of the sun with the Seestar S50, which I later stacked.

June 28^th 2320 GMT Moon

The moon was a mere 9 degrees above the horizon. I took a video with the Seestar S50 that I stacked later.

June 26^th 2200 GMT M17

I photographed the nebula (M17), a.k.a. The Swan Nebula with the Seestar S50. I did 55 minutes integration before it disappeared behind a fence.

I did a 1 minute integration of 2 second exposures of the Ring Nebula (M57).

June 26^th 2045 GMT Moon

I took a video of the moon with the Seestar S50 that I stacked later.

June 26^th 1200 GMT Sun

I took a video of the sun with the Seestar S50 that I later stacked.

June 25th 2100 GMT Moon

I took a video of the moon with the Seestar S50 for later stacking.

June 25^th 1125 GMT Sun

I took full disc and closeup videos of the sun with the Seestar S50. The sun was 61 degrees above the horizon. The strange colour of the sun in the full disc image was an attempt to highlight the sunspots and hide Newton's rings.

June 24th 2230 GMT M26

I tried to photograph the globular star cluster M22 with the Seestar S50 but it was too low. I photographed the open star cluster M26 instead. I ran an integration for 60 minutes and finished in GraXpert and GIMP.

I tried to capture 10P/Tempel but itr did not show.

June 24^th 2050 GMT Moon

I took a video of the moon with the Seestar S50 that I later stacked.

June 24^th 0825 GMT Sun

I photographed the Sun with my Mak/DSLR combination at 1.54m focal length, ISO 100 and 1/500 second exposure.

June 23rd 2235 GMT M9

I photographed the globular star cluster M9 with the Seestar S50. I managed 30 minutes integration before it disappeared behind a house. Significantly, I noticed  a dark patch to the bottom right.

June 23^rd 0900 GMT Sun

I took 59 still images of the sun with my Mak and DSLR at 1.54m focal length, ISO 500 and 1/500 second exposure.

June 22nd 0740 GMT Sun

I photographed the sun with my Mak and DSLR at 1.54m focal length, ISO 100 and 1/500 second exposure. I stacked 29 images in Autostakkert and finished in GIMP.

June 21^st 0820 GMT Sun

I photographed the sun with the Mak and DSLR at 1.54m focal length, ISO 100 and 1/500 second exposure in hazy conditions. Despite stacking 25 images, I could not find any detail.

June 20th 2220 GMT M107 and M16

I did some short integrations on M107 and M16. M107 took 12 minutes before it disappeared behind a house. M16 took 9 minutes before I had to end the session prematurely.

June 20^th  2125 GMT Moon

I had a lot of trouble finding the moon and I needed to use Arcturus as a sighter then manually find the moon in Scenery mode. I took full disc still shots and a video that I later stacked.

June 20th 2110 GMT Moon and Venus

I tried to photograph the moon with Venus with a phone camera but they were quite far apart. Against all odds, it worked!

June 18^th 2230 GMT IC4665

I photographed the open star cluster IC4665 with the Seestar S50. I processed a single integration of 73 minutes and finished in GIMP. For some unknowmn reason, GraXpert did not work.

June 18^th 2100 GMT Moon and Venus

I was out walking our dogs when I saw the moon and Venus in the dusk sky. I don't think I got them the first time but I did 10 minutes later, with the phone camera.

I saw Jupiter near the horizon but could not capture it with Venus.

I then captured Venus and the moon (separately) with the Seestar S50 but it took a lot of manual finding and using Arcturus as a sighter. I took still images and videos, which I later stacked. For Venus, the still image produced the better result. With the moon, the stacked video and still shot were almost identical.

June 14^th 0125 GMT Sun

I took a full disc  video of the sun with the Seestar S50, which I later stacked.

June 13^th 2210 GMT Deep Sky Session: M14

I tried to image the globular star cluster M14 with the Seestar S50. I had problems with star trailing and confirmed this when |I tried to capture M5.

I set the exposure time to 5 seconds and tried M14 again.

June 13^th 2110 GMT Venus and Jupiter

I photographed Venus with Jupiter with my phone camera.

I photographed Venus with the Seestar S50 but did not detect a phase change from 100% until I removed the red and blue channels and adjusted the contrast..

June 13^th 1145 GMT Sun

The sun was a full 61 degrees high in the sky, far too high for my Mak/DSLR combination, so I had a go with the Seestar S50. I took a full disc video and some still closeups.

June 10^th 2125 GMT Venus with Jupiter

I took some phone camera shots of Venus with Jupiter.

June 10^th 2100 GMT Venus with Jupiter

I took two photos of Venus with Jupiter with my phone camera at dufferent zoom levels.

June 9^th 1700 GMT Sun

I used my Mak and DSLR combination at 1.54m focal length, ISO 100 and 1/500 second exposure. I stacked 18 frames in Autostakkert and finished in GIMP.

June 9^th 1050 GMT Sun

I had a few minutes in between cloud to take a full disc video of the sun, with the Seestar S50, which I stacked later.

Cloud rolled in when I tried a closeup video, so a no result there..

June 8^th 2105 GMT Venus and Jupiter

I took some photos of Venus with Jupiter with my phone camera.

I tried to find Venus with the Seestar S50 but it did not work.

June 8th 1530 GMT Sun

I photographed the sun with my Mak and DSLR at my usual settings of 1.54m focal length, ISO100 and 1/500 second exposure. I stacked 19 images in Autostakkert and finished in GIMP.

June 8th 1130 GMT Sun

I made several attempts to find the sun using the Seestar S50 but they all failed, partly due to cloud.  I did a drawing from binocular observatiobs, instead.

June 4^th 2135 GMT Venus with Jupiter

I photographed Venus with Jupiter from an upstairs window with my phone camera.