It's sidewalk astronomy weekend again. We'll update our web page in case of any change in weather or circumstances. The waxing crescent moon and Jupiter will be our observing targets this month. Friday, June 30, 7:30 p.m. 'til 10:00 p.m., Colorado near Delacey, Old Town Pasadena Saturday, July 1, 7:30 p.m. 'til 9:30 p.m., Myrtle & Lime, Monrovia. There is a Monrovia Art Walk near Colorado and Myrtle 5:30 - 9:30 on this same date, and again August 5 and September 2. I don't think this will impact our Myrtle and Lime setup tho', it just offers more interesting things to do. From U of Illinois' Jim Kaler comes this lovely description of this week's sky. You can find the whole text, updated every Friday, here (scroll down past the interesting links for the text) : http://www.astro.uiuc.edu/~kaler/skylights.html "Mars, closer and faster-moving than Saturn, has now pulled well to the east of the ringed planet. Saturn, which now sets around 10:30 PM Daylight Time, will be gone from view toward the end of July. Mars currently sets right after Saturn. Keeping better orbital pace with Earth, however, the red planet will be seen in bright twilight well into August. With these planets slowly disappearing, the night sky then belongs to very bright Jupiter, which hangs out in far western Libra about two-thirds of the way from Spica in Virgo to Libra's Zubenelgenubi." Hope to see some of you out this weekend! Jane and Mojo -- Jane Houston Jones Senior Outreach Specialist, Cassini Program JPL - 4800 Oak Grove Drive, MS 230-205 Pasadena, CA 91109 818-393-6435 jane.h.jones(a)jpl.nasa.gov Cassini Saturn Observation Campaign http://soc.jpl.nasa.gov/index.cfm