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Here you will find useful observing information about the visible planets, our Moon and other moons, the Sun, as well as various 'things' celestial. Among these web pages you will find monthly star maps for either the northern or southern hemisphere that are suitable for printout. Animated images are utilized to illustrate celestial motions such as orbital motions of the planets, and other solar orbiting objects, or apparent and real motions along the ecliptic and the local horizon. Regular features include plotting the monthly positions of the visible planets using heliocentric coordinates; following - moon phases; conjunctions; Sun's apparent, and Earth's real motion along the ecliptic.


Volume 30          Issue 9
September 2024
   Month at a Glance:

     This month is the second of the two equinox months so on the 22nd the Sun, in its apparent path along the ecliptic, will reach the astronomical coordinates of 12hours: 0o. This places the Sun crossing the celestial equator moving southward toward its December low point , (23.5o) and the December solstice.

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What is this? "It's a prediction of when Lees Summit, MO, will have good weather for astronomical observing." Click on the graphic to go to the Clear Sky web site.


Mercury will be visible as a morning planet during the first half, or so, of this month. It will be at its best viewing for observers north of the equator. Merury, howvever, daily and steadily catches up with the Sun as it moves into superior conjunction by the 30th.
Venus continues to outshine everything in the evening skies at sunset local time, except for the Moon.
Mars rises late in the evening and will be visible for the remainder of the night hours around the stars of Taurus the Bull over the southern horizon.
Dwarf Planet Ceres has an apparent magnitude too faint to make it naked-eye visible, however the Dwarf Planet is within the teapot-shaped asterism of Sagittarius and has the Milky Way as its backdrop.
Jupiter rises around midnight local time and will be visible within the constellation of Taurus the Bull for the rest of the night hours.
Saturn is near opposition so it rises around sunset local time, is above the horizon for the night hours, and sets around sunrise.
Uranus is also within within the constellation of Taurus the Bull and is a few degrees west from the Pleiades open star cluster. With an apparent magnitude less than 6.0 Uranus may be visible to the naked-eye in dark enough skies.

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September Sky Calendar

02. New Moon
04. Mercury at Greatest Western Elongation: 18.1°W
     Moon at Descending Node
05. Venus-Moon Conjunction
     Moon at Apogee: 252,335 miles (406,215 km)
06. Spica-Moon Conjunction
07. Saturn at Opposition
09. Mercury-Regulus Conjunction
     Mercury at Perihelion

9-10. Antares-Moon Conjunction
11. First Quarter Moon
16-17. Saturn-Moon Conjunction
     Full Moon
     Partial Lunar Eclipse
     Venus-Spica Conjunction
18. Moon at Perigee: 221,939 miles (357,284 km)
     Moon at Ascending Node

20. Neptune at Opposition
21. Pleiades-Moon Conjunction
     September Equinox
24. Last Quarter Moon
26. Pollux-Moon Conjunction
27. C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS at Perihelion
29. Regulus-Moon Conjunction
30. Mercury at Superior Conjunction
September 5September 5 - 8:00 pm CDT
September 5September 5 - Apogee Moon
252,335 miles (406,215 km)
September 6September 6 - 8 pm CDT
September 9September 9 - 6:00 am CDT
September 17September 17 - 7:30 pm CDT
September 17September 18 - Perigee Moon
221,939 miles (357,284 km)
September 21September 21 - 1:30 pm CDT
September 26September 26 - 5:00 am CDT
September 29September 29 - 5:00 am CDT
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2024: Above the Solar System at 10 day Intervals
Planet Coordinates for September


Planet coordinate data for the visible planets and the Sun at 10-day intervals for this month.
Click here to see the web page showing this information, and also for a larger and easier to read version of the above graphic.



September 2024: Above the Terrestrial Planets at 5-day Intervals
My Local Time: CDT (UT-5)
Lee's Summit, Missouri, U.S.A.
38.9116°N, 94.3617°W

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