Volume 30 Issue 9
September 2024
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.
Click here for the month at a glance calendar.
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.
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.
Click here for the month at a glance calendar.
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.
