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Volume 22 -- Issue 9
Sky Watch Calendar -- September 2016
01.
New Moon
Annular Solar Eclipse
Moon at Ascending Node
02.
Very Thin Waxing Crescent
   Moon Near Jupiter
Saturn at East Quadrature
Neptune at Opposition
03.
Waxing Crescent Moon Near Venus
04.
Waxing Crescent Moon Near Spica
06.
Moon at Apogee - 405,055 km
08.
Waxing Crescent Moon Near Saturn
09.
First Quarter Moon
Moon Near Mars
12.
Mercury at Inferior Conjunction
13.
Mars at East Quadrature
15.
Moon at Descending Node
16.
Full Moon

Penumbral Lunar Eclipse
Sun Does Enter the Astronomical
   Sign of Virgo
18.
Moon at Perigee - 361,896 km
22.
September Equinox, and the Sun Does Not
   Enter the Astrological Sign of Libra
Waning Gibbous Moon Near Aldebaran
23.
Last Quarter Moon

25.
Pluto Ends Retrograde Motion
26.
Jupiter in Solar Conjunction
Waning Crescent Moon Near M-44
27.
Waning Crescent Moon Near Regulus
Cassini Titan Flyby
28.
Moon at Acscending Node
Mercury at West Elongation (18o)
29.
Waning Crescent Moon Near Mercury

2016 Moon Phases from NASA GSFC and LRO

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