Nightwatch - July 2024

See the night sky come to life this month in the Sudekum Planetarium at Adventure Science Center. Tickets available at bit.ly/ASCPlanetarium
Highlights:
* Saturn rises earlier and is in the late evening and morning sky.
* Mars rises earlier, but is still low in east before sunrise.
* Jupiter joins Mars later in July, before sunrise
* Hercules is faint, but overhead in the evening sky.
* A nova is expected in the faint constellation Corona Borealis/the Crown this summer, between Bootes and Hercules.
* Scorpius is in the south, with the bright red star, Antares.