Thursday, June 5, 2025

Gibbous Moon Shines Near Spica (evening)

As the sky darkens on Thursday evening, June 5, Virgo's brightest star Spica will be twinkling less than 6 degrees to the left (southeast) of the waxing gibbous moon in the southern sky. As the hours pass, the moon's easterly orbital motion will carry it closer to the star and the rotation of the sky will lift Spica to the moon's upper left. Hours later, skywatchers located in
a zone extending from southeast of Madagascar through the Kerguelen Islands
and eastern Antarctica south of Australia can see the moon occult Spica around 15:00 UT.

(Data courtesy of Starry Night)
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