The June night sky

Jupiter rules the heavens, but keep an eye open for noctilucent clouds that gleam low in the sky after nightfall and before dawn

June brings our summer solstice on the 21st and sees Jupiter remain as the stand-out object in a night sky that is blighted by persistent twilight at our latitudes. The latter is so severe over northern Britain that it swamps all but the brighter stars and planets. Those bright stars include Vega in Lyra which is high in the E by our map times as the Summer Triangle it forms with Altair in Aquila and Deneb in Cygnus returns to prominence.