A table listing some of the Astronomical Phenomena for June 2016:
Phenomena June
| 1 | Moon passes 2 degrees south of Uranus mag +5.9 (14 UT) |
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| 3 | Saturn mag 0.0 is at opposition 9.015 AU (approx. 1349 million kms or 838 million miles) from the Earth (7 UT) |
| 3 | Moon passes 0.7 degrees south of Mercury mag 0.7, occultation is visible from southern Africa, Madagascar (9:47 UT) |
| 3 | Moon is at perigee 361,138 km or 224,401 miles from Earth (10:48 UT) |
| 5 | New Moon (3:00 UT) |
| 5 | Mercury mag 0.5 is at greatest elongation west 24.2 degrees (9 UT) |
| 6 | Venus is at superior conjunction (22 UT) |
| 7 | Moon passes 11 degrees south of Pollux mag +1.1 (23 UT) |
| 10 | Moon passes 2 degrees south of Regulus mag +1.4 (15 UT) |
| 11 | Asteroid (8) Flora mag +9.4 is at opposition in Ophiuchus |
| 11 | Moon passes 2 degrees south of Jupiter mag -2.0 (20 UT) |
| 12 | First quarter Moon (8:10 UT) |
| 14 | Neptune mag +7.9 is stationary in Aquarius, afterwards begins retrograde motion (3 UT) |
| 14 | Moon passes 5 degrees north of Spica mag +1.0 (21 UT) |
| 15 | Moon is at apogee 405,025 km or 251,671 miles from Earth (11:55 UT) |
| 17 | Moon passes 7 degrees north of Mars mag -1.8 (10 UT) |
| 18 | Moon passes 10 degrees north of Antares mag +1.0 (18 UT) |
| 19 | Mercury mag -0.6 passes 4 degrees north of Aldebaran mag +0.9 (21 UT) |
| 19 | Moon passes 3 degrees north of Saturn mag +0.0 (0 UT) |
| 20 | Full Moon (11:03 UT) |
| 20 | NH Summer Solstice, SH Winter Solstice (22:35 UT) |
| 22 | Saturn's moon Iapetus is at greatest western elongation mag +10.1 (5 UT) |
| 26 | Moon passes 1.2 degrees north of Neptune mag +7.9, occultation is visible from central and Northern Europe (0 UT) |
| 27 | Last quarter Moon (18:19 UT) |
| 28 | Moon passes 3 degrees south of Uranus mag +5.9 (22 UT) |
| 30 | Mars mag -1.4 is stationary in Libra, afterwards resumes direct motion (8 UT) |