Night Watchman: Black on Black

In June's drab skies, Pluto providesa test of sky-watching expertise.

By Bob Berman
Jun 1, 1998 5:00 AMNov 12, 2019 5:00 AM

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If you love the night sky, you’ve come to the wrong month. The solstice arrives at 10:03 a.m., eastern standard time, on the twenty-first, and these shortest nights are sandwiched by twilights that now linger at their yearly maximums. June offers just five hours of full darkness from places at New York’s latitude, and less than two hours from the northernmost states.

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