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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 (18
o
)
29.
Waning Crescent Moon
Near Mercury
2016 Moon Phases from
NASA GSFC
and
LRO
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