Overview
- The grouping is visible the mornings of July 11 and July 12 and appears low in the eastern sky before sunrise.
- The Moon, Mars and Saturn are bright enough to see without instruments while Uranus will usually require binoculars or a small telescope.
- Observers should find a clear, unobstructed eastern horizon and leave city lights behind so eyes can adapt to the dark.
- Arizona offers especially favorable views at several DarkSky sites and parks named by local guides and DarkSky International, including Flagstaff, Grand Canyon-area locations, Sedona and Saguaro National Park.
- The event comes just before a new Moon on July 14 that will improve faint-object viewing and ahead of late-July changes in Saturn’s ring profile and the delta Aquáridas meteor peak.