Some upcoming events are posted at: durhamspark.blogspot.com/2026/04/update-for-week-16-of-2026-palestinian.html (updated recently) and durhamspark.blogspot.com/2026/04/update-for-week-15-of-2026-anti-war.html ; some anniversaries are posted at: durhamspark.blogspot.com/2024/04/some-additional-events-and.html , etc.
More will be added later.
[MKULTRA began April 13, 1953: CHAOS: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties (by Tom O'Neill and Dan Piepenbring, 2019), page 353; see also: the Covert Action webste and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MKUltra A related murder July 4, 1954 near Lackland AFB (pages 370-374)? Tusko, an Asian elephant in OKC, was accidentally killed with LSD August 2, 1962 (pages 374-376). Jack Ruby?] [The Tate–LaBianca murders were August 9-10, 1969.]
Raúl Castro's 95 birth anniversary: cpcml.ca/TML2026/T56040.HTM#1 [and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raúl_Castro ]
[June 5th: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naksa_Day ]
(The anniversary of this blog was on the 6th, of course the landing at Normandy was talked up, and a "pearl-colored 50' disk" reportedly hovered and landed, "leaving ground marks," in Greensboro, NC June 6, 1975 –.UFO Exist!, 1976; Isle of Wight report June 8th? World Oceans Day? – www.un.org/en/observances/international-days-and-weeks ; Forklift Safety Day is June 9th.)
Israel tried to sink the USS Liberty June 8, 1967 in the Mediterranean off Egypt, killing or wounding many US personnel; I thought that LBJ prevented a military response but I could be mistaken; Israel has been richly rewarded by the US government since and Israel continues to get away with killing US citizens up to today.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Liberty_incident
www.counterpunch.org/2022/06/08/the-attack-on-the-uss-liberty-55-years-later/
The 'We want to be bombed and want to betray Hezbollah' anti-Iran propaganda continues from NPR's correspondent in Turkey. An alleged Iranian in Iran who wants to be bombed compared it to a world war, though. They want their country to be ruled by the new version of the German-Italian-Japanese fascist anti-Soviet Axis, now led by the USA (there used to be a word for this)? The war is "in" Iran, NPR always says, and up to now they have been separating off what they term the war between Israel and Hezbollah. They portray what has been going on as several separate wars, none, reportedly, very much trouble for the US or Israel. They say nothing about Israel's losses or censorship regime and little about US losses, other than the Strait of Hormuz being closed now where it was open before. Very little about what the NATO countries have been doing for Israel, but they trumpet about any country that (allegedly) helps Russia. They make everything about Trump and nothing about Israel – CBS, the persecution of Mahmoud Khalil, etc. They don't want to talk about Americans who want the US to have little or nothing to do with Israel and an end to the yearly attacks on Iran. A few days ago NPR had another story about Israeli-Palestinian civilian engagement, a start ups event at Northeastern (not in Palestine) – the Palestinians all seemed so apologetic.
["How Successful Were Iran's Retaliatory Strikes on Israel? Israeli Military Censors Don't Want You To Know." – the307.substack.com/p/how-successful-were-irans-retaliatory
Today is the 100th day of the latest US-Iran war, NPR says.
They revealed why warmonger Emily Fang was in Israel a few months ago – to whitewash something like 20,000 Chinese Uighurs and their families who went to Syria to join the Islamists in NATO's proxy jihad and are now in HTS' military. I didn't listen to Fang earlier, but a similar or the same story was on this evening. Funded by a grant from Pulitzer.
["The goal of the Turkestan Islamic Party is to achieve independence from China in order to create a caliphate in Xinjiang." – diario-octubre.com/2026/06/22/el-nuevo-ejercito-sirio-se-alza-sobre-los-mismos-pilares-que-al-qaeda/ ]
[Far right Obama and even Sanders official Joel Rubin was warmongering against Iran and Lebanon on the BBC June 18th; Hezbollah is allegedly foreign to Lebanon, working for Iran (who is Rubin working for?), and Israel should be allowed to attack Lebanon whenever it wants to, and the US should interfere in Iran, he said. – en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Martin_Rubin Around June 5th Israel bombed the home of a famous Lebanese green sea turtle conservationist, but she and others lived (mentioned on the BBC much later). A former Iranian diplomat at Princeton was interviewed on NPR for once, around June 16th.] [I doubt that NPR played Trump's amazing condemnation of Israel's bombing of Lebanese apartments much. The Democratic Party's Rubin did not (did Biden?). Eleanor Beardsley/NPR called G7 measures against Russia 'uniting to end' the Ukraine War. She said someone considers Putin 'a bloodthirsty dictator and war criminal,' something NPR never says about Trump and Netanyahu.]
On Ukrainian and Jewish fascisms:
eventsinukraine.substack.com/p/zionazis (part of a series?)
www.rt.com/news/640771-zelensky-fascism-fetish-west/
Trying to save Albania's Adriatic Sazan Island from the Trumps, etc. [; the "Flamingo Revolution"]:
[ www.rt.com/news/641040-mass-protests-albania-trump/ ]
[Thomas Karat on Substack June 9th – "When a barefoot Nymph walked up a Nuclear Fortress – Ivanka Trump "discovered" an Island - with 3600 nuclear bunkers"] [ karat.substack.com/p/when-a-barefoot-nymph-walked-up-a9/ (?) and karat.substack.com/p/ivankas-island-part-ii ]
geopolitiq.substack.com/p/albania-is-fighting-back-against
? – english.almayadeen.net/news/environment/-ivanka–go-home—albania-protests-kushner-linked-resort-pr
Dazibao in the Chinese Cultural Revolution:
Kollibri.Substack.com on Iran's natural symbols
Hands Off Nadia Topete: stopfbi.org/news/hands-off-immigrants-rights-activist-nadia-topete-stop-grand-jury-repression/
From BAJ (slightly edited) –
106 Purefoy Road
Balance and Accuracy in Journalism
Presents
Lawrence Wilkerson and Lawrence Johnson.
In Maine (from Lisa Savage’s Substack):
The polluting-for-recruiting Blue Angels military air show will be protested outside the Brunswick Executive Airport on Saturday July 11 starting at 9am.
Our next statewide coalition standout will be in Bangor on Saturday July 25 at an earlier time than usual: 11am at the West Market Square intersection (where Main St., Hammond Street, Broad Street, and Central St. meet).
Our August standout will be in Lubec on Saturday August 1 at 1:30pm. Stay tuned for details on staying in this lovely Canada-adjacent coastal community.
[From icssmarx.org –
Charlotte Kates, co-founder of the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network and deputy secretary-general of the International Association of Democratic Lawyers, will speak on "The Islamic Resistance, the Revolutionary Left and Anti-Imperialist Struggle" Sunday, July 19th, 10:30am-12pm Pacific Daylight Time.
Maria Páez Victor, a Venezuelan Chavista, academic, and founder of the Louis Riel Bolivarian Circle of Toronto, will speak on "Venezuela: A Phoenix" Sunday, July 26th, 10:30am-12pm Pacific Time.]
[Homegrown History on PBS NC episode on the Revolutionary War (civil war) in Silk Hope in Chatham County, from the CCHA –
"YouTube: https://youtu.be/tHGOSXCZb3g
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1Jfp7kKU2t/
The episode is also scheduled to air on PBS NC’s Homegrown History broadcast premiere on PBS NC: 8pm EST on July 16, 2026. " (etc.)]
I saw an adult Carolina locust or grasshopper (Dissosteira carolina) this morning and in the afternoon. These relatively large, pale-colored, mottled, grasshoppers are very well camouflaged on dry, semi-bare ground, but reveal their boldly patterned black and off-white inner wings in flight. It was moving or waving its back right leg for some reason. I think their wings are supposed to both startle predators and signal for courtship. Carolina locust are usually out by May or maybe before, but are uncommon in my neighborhood. Male Carolina anoles have also been running around, signaling with their pink dewlaps. I saw that despite the drought the Eastern gama grass now has a few dark purple, 'furry' female flowers, which usually or always appear before the separate (as in maize), orange male flowers. There might have been a peal of thunder at 5:34pm.
It rained in May and the drought temporarily backed off. It is hot now. Deep blue dayflowers, orange 'wild' daylilies, white daisy fleabane (?), white Gardenias, a white azalea, a white and dark red or red purple rose of Sharon, pink Spirea, etc. have been blooming; just today a dark red/pink Madagascar periwinkle or vinca (not a Vinca?) and white lizard's tail are beginning to bloom.
I thought I heard a cicada of some kind around 8pm on June 4th and more subsequently. I found a bluish-green egg shell (robin?) June 6th. I saw a small brown Chinese or European praying mantis nymph June 7th. Praying mantises have recently colonized the southern UK (the Isle of Wight, etc.?) from mainland Europe. A family of raccoons might be living here (hence a flea or two?) and running around on the roof (at 8:41pm today?). Few fireflies.
On cicadas: durhamspark.blogspot.com/2024/08/summer-came-in-with-buzz-and-whirr-goes.html
Two or more fireflies, the first of 2026, were out around 7:30 on the 21st. There were more clouds on the 21st and it might have been cooler; it was windy around dusk, followed by a storm, outages, and rain overnight. Deep drought ongoing. A gray treefrog call (more every evening after it began to rain again, but I lost track of when it rained; I think US Memorial Day weekend was cool and wet again this year, though it used to be very warm and dry or maybe stormy every year; I think the Japanese privet used to be blooming in late May, and Manhattan Euonymus around July 4th; green June beetles should be out flying over lawns during the day now or by mid-June [I found the remains of one June 28th]; various species of brown May and click beetles have been out at night for a while now) and a yellow sulphur recently. The loud nocturnal treetop summer katydids will start calling in several days? [Early on about June 20th.] I didn't really hear the loud, buzzing nocturnal spring (shield?) katydids/orthopterans again this year.
I might have neglected to post the many butterfly species I saw at the end of June 2025 (and later this month?) and the 'lost' notes from early 2026.
[June 9th a family of titmouses came to the drying out birdbath, even sharing. Then a brown cardinal came, joined by a much smaller chipping (?) sparrow, moving to the center. A hesitant robin came, again joined by a sparrow, until they were both displaced by a male yellow-shafted flicker.
Very (very) little precipitation on the evening of the 14th (?), but more around 4pm on the 18th [(windy all day prior)]. A light blue Carolina petunia bloomed around the 16th or 15th. Manhattan Euonymus started blooming a little by the 14th; also a pink-flowered silktree. One or more barred owls were hissing by the window the evening of the 17th. The deer and hawks are around. The towhees must have chicks and are anxious. Leafhoppers, some tended by ants, on a sunflower (the top was bitten off by a deer; silktree leaves were also browsed). The raccoons left last week?] [A gentle storm on the evening of the 18th. A storm inside earlier today.] [Two very large brown borer beetles on the 18th; a yellow spotted one a few days ago; light brown May beetles; a white moth and others; etc.; tiny worms on a dead fly might have been trying to hitch a ride before the fly was killed; a green lacewing was biting me on the back?.]
[Much more to add from late June.]
[And late June 2025. [The towhees were acting anxious and probably had chicks. One or more young (?) owls were hissing outside early in the evening weeks ago. I saw a meteor flash in the east from around Pegasus and Mars (?) down between Triangulum and Aries before dawn on June 21st. Many more white and red rose of Sharon flowers opened with the abundant rain in late June and July, also red and pink Madagascar periwinkles, brilliant blue dayflowers, and sort of violet blue Ruellia. I heard the summer katydids early on about June 20th. A very large, shiny black rhinoceros beetle with two 'horns' somehow got inside again in 2026 and must still be inside now; I noticed it around 10:40pm on July 19th; squeaked. A small late summer moth also came in and I heard an owl nearby. Moth Week 2026 is around July 18-26th. The pink Camellia seeded around May or June. American beautyberries are flowering. One or more small bullfrogs and toads have been seen here and cricket, green, and bullfrogs were calling at ponds June 28th, but I did not see fish nests. Many fewer insects were out in late June 2026 than in 2025?]
The new world screwworm fly has escaped from US government control, but Google (why, what does it have to do with IT or their profits?) wants to release genetically-engineered mosquitos somewhere.
"Hayekian" literary criticism?
NP 100th anniversaries (to add later):
Great Smokey Mountains [(May 22nd)], Shenandoah [(May 22nd)], Mammoth Cave [(May 25th)], Moores Creek Battlefield [(June 2nd), Petersburg Battlefield (July 3rd)]
50th anniversaries: Klondike (June 30th), Valley Forge (July 4th), Ninety Six (August 19th)
The 10th anniversary of Katahdin is August 24th.
The 110th anniversary of the NPS is August 25th.]
'Astronomer propaganda' on HASTRO and PBS (British?) recently.
[Mentioned on the HASTRO listserve recently –
Coming up at the Centre for the Study of Medicine and the Body in the Renaissance (CSMBR) in Pisa, Italy –
"Galen's Remedies Beyond the Renaissance
Early Modern Traditions and Theories of Materia Medica
Fabrizio Bigotti
John Wilkins
[ ... ]
21 July 2026 – 5 PM (CET)"
csmbr.fondazionecomel.org/events/online-lectures/galens-remedies-beyond-the-renaissance/
Science Alert, "Hidden in a Guatemalan Ruin For 1,200 Years Was The Signature of a Maya Mathematical Genius," July 14th – www.sciencealert.com/we-finally-know-the-name-of-a-revered-maya-astronomer-mathematician-sak-tahn-waax
"A team of researchers from the US, writing in the journal Antiquity, has identified someone called Sak Tahn Waax, which translates as 'White-chested Fox'. The name of this Indigenous mathematician-astronomer was left alongside a rather impressive mathematical formula.
Cambridge Core/Antiquity, "The identification and work of an eighth-century Maya mathematician," July 14th – www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/identification-and-work-of-an-eighthcentury-maya-mathematician/FDE9610F9D80ADBC245CAC2B8F204070
Arkeonews, "Rare 2,700-Year-Old Seal from Tel Yavne Reveals Astral Worship in the Shadow of the Assyrian Empire," July 9th – arkeonews.net/rare-2700-year-old-seal-from-tel-yavne-reveals-astral-worship-in-the-shadow-of-the-assyrian-empire/
Journal of the Institute of Archaeology of Tel Aviv University, "An ‘Assyro-Levantine’ Stamp Seal with a Worship Scene Found near Tel Yavne," July 3rd – www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03344355.2026.2637186
BBC, "Five key scenes from the Bayeux Tapestry, and the story they tell" July 10th –www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gy1xg9z0mo
"Planetary Power Proportions: Plato to Kepler" (2022, Astronomia Nova) – www.academia.edu/82022231/Planetary_Power_Proportions_Plato_to_Kepler
J. McKim Malville, “Celebration of Kepler’s Third Law: Harmony, Power Laws, and Keplerian Orbits” Culture and Cosmos, 27:53-71
Regarding Theta Eridani (by Idel Waisberg and Boaz Katz?) – arxiv.org/abs/2606.30748
Regarding Max Planck – www.science.org/content/article/why-have-papers-one-history-s-most-famous-physicists-been-retracted
"Springer Nature was nevertheless still selling the empty PDF for $39.95 until this story was published.”
Introduction to the History of Archaeoastronomy, by Carolyn Kennett – “a concise history of archaeoastronomy in Britain and Ireland as it developed into an academic, multidisciplinary field,” available for £10 + shipping: societyforthehistoryofastronomy.com/book-publications/
Ruggles, C. L. N., and Chadburn, A. 2024. Stonehenge: Sighting the Sun. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press/Historic England.
Clive Ruggles received an honorary D.Sc. degree from the University of Leicester Thursday, July 16th at 10am at De Montfort Hall – www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwpovfQ6rZE
Eric Glover: The Astronomy of Hipparchus - An Annotated Translation of and Introduction to the Commentary on the Phenomena of Aratus and Eudoxus – doi.org/10.1017/9781009607544
www.wired.com/video/watch/every-ancient-greek-constellation-explained
kiwihellenist.blogspot.com/2024/04/weekdays.html
The Royal Museum Greenwich webpage, Why 12 months in a year, seven days in a week or 60 minutes in an hour?
Popular Astronomy 1939 article by Leland S. Copeland "Sources of the Seven-Day Week"
Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, Vol. 93, p.122 "Astronomical Names for the Days of the Week" by Falk, M.
Kazuo MUROI (2014) – "The Origin of the Mystical Number Seven in Mesopotamian Culture: Division by Seven in the Sexagesimal Number System"
Not accurate? – Ferdinand von Andrian, "Die Siebenzahl im Geistesleben der Völker", _Mittheilungen der Anthropologischen Gesellschaft in Wien_, vol. 31 (1901), 225-274. – books.google.com/books?id=3JRAAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA225 or resolver.iai.spk-berlin.de/IAI0000545900000000 Cites William St. Chad Boscawen (1888)?
A.R. Michaelis (1982) – www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1179/030801882789801278
von Andrian, Jensen, and Winkler
EJ Bickerman, Chronology of the ancient world (revised edition, 1982)
William St. Chad Boscawen, "The Babylonian and Jewish Festivals", _The Babylonian & Oriental Record_, vol.4 (1889), 34-38 – archive.org/details/babylonianorient04londuoft/page/34/mode/1up
Hugo Winckler, "ḫamuštu", _Altorientalische Forschungen_, Zweite Reihe, Band I (1898), 91-102 – archive.org/details/bub_gb_lGgDAAAAYAAJ/page/n97/mode/1up
Peter Jensen, "Die siebentägige Woche in Babylon und Niniveh", _Zeitschrift für DeutscheWortforschung_, vol. 1 (1901), 150-160 – archive.org/details/zeitschriftfrd01berluoft/page/150/mode/1up
Ilaria Bultrighini & Sacha Stern, "The Seven-Day Week in the Roman Empire: Origins, Standardization, and Diffusion", in: S. Stern (ed.), _Calendars in the Making: The Origins of Calendars from the Roman Empire to the Later Middle Ages_ (Leiden: Brill, 2021 [= _Time, Astronomy, and Calendars: Texts and Studies_, nr. 10]), pp. 10-79 – doi.org/10.1163/9789004459694_003 or refubium.fu-berlin.de/bitstream/handle/fub188/37017/Ch.1%20Seven-day%20week.pdf
Sasha Stern (ed.), Calendars in the Making – The Origins of Calendars from the Roman Empire to the Later Middle Ages, (Brill 2021).
Aeon Essays, "Transit of wonder," July 17th – aeon.co/essays/why-has-venus-obsessed-so-many-astronomers
www.oxfordhistory.org.uk/streets/inscriptions/central/halley.html
Helen Hogg, JRASC – ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/scan/manifest/1947JRASC..41...69S?art=true
Hornsby, T., (ed.): Astronomical Observations, made at the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, from the Year MDCCL to the Year MDCCLXII by the Rev James Bradley, D.D., Oxford, 1798, Vol I. –
Fundamenta Astronomiae (1818)
The Washington Double Stars Catalog
Cycle of Celestial Objects, Vol. II The Bedford Catalogue, by Captain W. H. Smyth, 1844
Calculating multiple orbital periods when the bodies can't be separately identified, as happened with Jupiter –
Suzanne Débarbat and Curtis Wilson: archive.org/details/planetaryastrono0002unse/page/144/mode/1up
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godfried_Wendelen#Moons_of_Jupiter
www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2009/fine-books-and-manuscripts-n08602/lot.38.html
[ Otto Neugebauer, _Ethiopic Astronomy and Computus_ (Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1979)
Tables and Diagrams in Christian Ethiopia and Eritrea – www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de/en/e/wissensgeschichte/aktuelles/2024_04_Visual-Scribe.html
Marius Chaîne, "La chronologie des temps chrétiens de l'Égypte et de l'Éthiopie", Paris, Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, 1925.
archive.org/details/lachronologiedes0000chan
www.nasa.gov/history/history-publications-and-resources/nasa-history-series/
Astronomy and Philosophy: Conceptual and Methodological Foundations and Challenges(Cambridge University Press, 2026) – www.cambridge.org/us/universitypress/subjects/physics/history-philosophy-and-foundations-physics/astronomy-and-philosophy-conceptual-and-methodological-foundations-and-challenges?format=HB&isbn=9781009621137#contents
Space, Time, and Aliens: Collected Works on Cosmos and Culture – www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030416133
Astrobiology, Discovery, and Societal Impact – www.cambridge.org/9781108426763
Classifying the Cosmos – link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-10380-4
direct.mit.edu/books/oa-edited-volume/6160/Testing-EinsteinOne-Hundred-Years-of-Experimental
“A Retrospective on the Pioneer 10 Search for mHz Gravitational Waves: Methodology and Results from the 1988 and 1993 Tracking Sessions,” JAHH, vol. 29 (2), 235-246 (2026).
www.aacu.org/liberaleducation/articles/the-road-to-the-stars
The Astro Society's 138th Annual Conference!
The Astro Society 2026: Astronomy @ 250
August 27-29th – astrosociety.org
aeon.co/essays/why-did-measuring-earths-true-shape-matter-for-science
A new exhibit on the Boyden Observatory and the Naval Hill Planetarium – www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1611139091021416&set=pcb.1611163194352339
Gabriele Vanin, The Tychonic system, an implausible theory – arxiv.org/abs/2605.29709
"Digital memory at stake: News outlets block Wayback Machine" – www.dw.com/en/digital-memory-at-stake-why-news-outlets-block-the-wayback-machine/a-76887853
The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at the Harvard University Neiman Lab – "News publishers limit Internet Archive access due to AI scraping concerns" – www.niemanlab.org/2026/01/news-publishers-limit-internet-archive-access-due-to-ai-scraping-concerns/
www.academia.edu/37121779/The_Zodiacal_Light_and_its_Use_in_Cultic_Practice
Ho ho ho – slate.com/technology/2026/05/astrology-science-problem-linda-goodman.html
What Science Says About Astrology – www.google.com/books/edition/What_Science_Says_About_Astrology/2oqbEQAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcover
Etc.; see an earlier post.]
Meteor showers: www.amsmeteors.org/meteor-showers/meteor-shower-calendar/ ]
In FT 471 – a meteor hit a house in Koblenz-Hulz, Germany early in the evening on March 8th and a bright meteor or bolide a few feet wide was recently seen over New England. (And humans can be poisoned by drinking blood [in large amounts]; there are many human blood types (49?); living fossil marsupials were found in Indonesian West Papua; and an Aegyptius monachus, the biggest species of Old World vulture, turned up in Hunchun, Jilin, China, and video of it walking across a main road was thought to be fake, "AI" or a suit. [An Old World black vulture, but very different and probably prettier than our black vulture]. The Patterson-Gimlin film has been called into question again?)
[In Fortean Times 470 (May 2026) – the tombstone marking the alleged 1897 grave of an extraterrestrial or Martian in Aurora, Texas (in Wise County) and associated metal artifacts were stolen early on June 14, 1973.]
[The last known son of a Federal Civil War veteran passed away recently? He was apparently over 100 years old and was conceived when his father was 80 (good news for natalism).]
Some spring festivals in the UK:
Wyrd Wycombe – WyrdWycombe.co.uk ?
The Ely Eel Festival, Penzance May Horns, and the Glastonbury Dragons Wild Hunt
Powwows to add.
Around May 3rd-4th and 30th-31st I saw the Moon near Antares and Fang or pi Scorpii. The "Blue Moon" at the end of May was a "super moon" but smaller than usual. I missed it, but Mars re-appeared around May 14th and there was a conjunction of the Moon and Venus May 18th. Venus was apparently highest on May 31st.
立夏 – Rikka, etc. May 5th-21st in 2026 – en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lixia
Pegasus is rising above the trees before dawn now; Cassiopeia is up in the northeast and Capricornus and Aquarius (the waning Moon will be around Aquarius tonight?) to the south to southeast. [Mars, Aries, Triangulum, Perseus, etc. are visible above the trees in the east before 5am and Cepheus to the north.]
On the constellations: penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Topics/astronomy/_Texts/secondary/ALLSTA/home.html
For alerts when the star T CrB goes nova: Astronomerstelegram.org and aavso.org/faq
Venus and Jupiter will appear to be very close together in the west on June 9th.
spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=08&month=06&year=2026
The Moon will appear to be very close to the Pleiades star cluster (M45) early on the 13th; from the Salt Lake City area west the Moon will occlude the Pleiades.
[I could see the thin, yellow crescent Moon only, through a gap in the trees.]
Asteroid Irene will reach opposition June 15th.
The Moon and Venus will be in conjunction June 17th; the Moon will occlude Venus during the day across much of the Americas (beginning around 3:30-4pm here); see: is.gd/iota_0617venus They will be near the Beehive, M44, at dusk, and Venus will be closest to the Beehive on the 19th.
[I missed out on the conjunctions above but I saw a meteor flash in the east from around Pegasus and Mars (?) down between Triangulum and Aries before dawn on June 21st.]
The Northern Hemisphere's summer solstice will be June 21st.
Jupiter and Mercury (greatest elongation on the 15th) will appear to be close together on June 24th
Mars will be near the Pleiades June 29th, not to be within two degrees again until 2038.
[Asteroid Melpomene was at opposition July 8th.]
[Asteroid Flora was at opposition July 9th.]
[There will be a conjunction of the waxing Moon and the star Regulus low in the western sky near sunset on July 16th.]
[There will be a conjunction of the Moon and Venus relatively low in the western sky near sunset on July 17th.]
[The Moon will be about 2 1/2 degrees left of Antares in the southern sky on the 24th (and near Fang on the 23rd).]
[Asteroid Juno will reach opposition July 26th.]
[Pluto [, in the western side of Capricornus,] will be at opposition July 27th (at about 3am EDT[; [magnitude 14.5]).] [Pluto will continue moving south for another four years, it will be furthest south of the ecliptic before 2090, and it will reach its aphelion in far off 2113?]
[Mercury will again become a "morning star" starting July 27th (with magnitude 1.1), though it will be easier to see on August 5th (at magnitude -0.4 and rising earlier, north of east).]
[Asteroid Bamberga will reach opposition July 28th.]
[The TLC is holding an early morning (very much pre-dawn) event for Moth Week 2026.]
[International Observe the Moon Night 2026 will be September 19th and there is Moon Joy June on Instagram, Threads, and Tumblr: go.nasa.gov/ObserveTheMoon ]
For occultations: Stellarium.org , SkySafariAstronomy.com , or lunar-occultations.com/
– From recent issues of Sky and Telescope and Astronomy magazines and see: planetary.org/night-sky I don't really know the Winter Hexagon asterism, though it is bright, but there is a chart on page 22 of the February issue Sky and Telescope. Now it is getting to be the time of the (Great?) Summer Triangle.
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