Does anyone know if the phenomenon is still observable tonight? The article discussed June 24 sunrise (this morning), but mentions ongoing activity all month.
Every night they will be in slightly different locations.
The moon moves several degrees in its position in the sky every night and rises later each night. Something like an hour or possibly more. So that's 15 degrees per hour difference. It's been a long time since I've looked at the exact numbers, but those rough numbers gets me close when planning. I use this from time to time when shooting full moon shots. If I shoot the day after the full moon, the moon rises later which means its a bit darker after sunset and not noticeably less full for creative purposes. However, whatever the moon is rising behind will look different. Cityscapes will have the building lights lit and much more obvious nighttime look where day of full moon tends to happen closer to sunset so you have that twighlight look instead.
The planets, being further away, move much less in their positions, but they definitely will be in different arrangements. So if on one day they are more or less in a line, the next day they might be more triangular shaped.
Yes, it should still be! The motion of the planets in the sky is relatively small day-over-day.
A good way to verify yourself would be to use a tool like Stellarium Web [1] and set your location and set the time to tonight at say, 3am (the planets become more visible as you get nearer to dawn tomorrow). You could even change the time from say 6/25 at 3am to 6/24 at 3am to see just how much / little it changes night-over-night.
That's a very nice app. Thanks for that. Seems like the sun is already getting up when the constellation happens from where I live, sadly. Not sure if I'll be able to see Mercury.
the planets don't move that fast. it won't stay a perfect line, but weather permitting it should be observable for a few weeks. mercury should be the first to disappear, since it moves the fastest.
