{"id":3030,"date":"2018-09-01T17:30:02","date_gmt":"2018-09-01T17:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/intergalacticbar.org\/?p=3030"},"modified":"2021-10-06T01:08:30","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T01:08:30","slug":"night-sky-events-this-month-september-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/intergalacticbar.org\/2018\/09\/01\/night-sky-events-this-month-september-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Night Sky Events This Month – September 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

September 1:<\/strong>\u00a0Low in the west-southwestern sky Venus will be situated only a finger’s width to the lower left of the bright naked-eye star Spica in Virgo. Visible in binoculars or telescope<\/p>\n

September 2:<\/strong>\u00a0Last Quarter Moon<\/p>\n

September 2:<\/strong>\u00a0Mercury at perihelion<\/p>\n

September 2:<\/strong>\u00a0Aldebaran passes the moon<\/p>\n

September 5:\u00a0<\/strong>Venus at aphelion<\/p>\n

September 6:<\/strong>\u00a0Mercury meets Regulus<\/p>\n

September 6 evening:<\/strong>\u00a0Saturn stationary near two Messier objects<\/p>\n

September 7 overnight:\u00a0<\/strong>Neptune at opposition<\/p>\n

September 8 pre-dawn:\u00a0<\/strong>Morning zodiacal light for Mid-Northern observers<\/p>\n

September 9:\u00a0<\/strong>New Moon<\/p>\n

September 9:\u00a0<\/strong>Piscid Meteor Shower<\/p>\n

September 9:<\/strong>\u00a0SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will be launching the Telstar 18 Vantage (Apstar 5C) communications satellite from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station<\/p>\n

September 10:<\/strong>\u00a0Comet 21P will be closest to Earth and will be at its brightest form before dawn. Must use either binoculars or telescope.<\/p>\n

September 10:\u00a0<\/strong>Japan launches its H-2B rocket from the Tanegashima Space Center. Will deliver supplies to the International Space Station<\/p>\n

September 11:<\/strong>\u00a0Moon at perihelion<\/p>\n

September 12 evening:\u00a0<\/strong>Young Moon passes Venus<\/p>\n

September 12:\u00a0<\/strong>NASA to conduct final test of Orion spacecraft\u2019s parachute system at Yuma Proving Ground in AZ.<\/p>\n

September 13 evening:<\/strong>\u00a0Jupiter near the Young Moon<\/p>\n

September 14:<\/strong>\u00a0Japan\u2019s H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV-7) will arrive at the International Space Station after a 3.5 day flight. NASA TV live coverage starting at 6am EDT<\/p>\n

September 15:\u00a0<\/strong>United Launch Alliance Delta 2 rocket will launch NASA\u2019s ICE Sat-2 to measure ice sheet elevation and ice sheet thickness changes linked to climate change along with measurements of Earth\u2019s vegetation biomass<\/p>\n

September 16:\u00a0<\/strong>First Quarter Moon<\/p>\n

September 16:<\/strong>\u00a0India to launch Nova SAR-S and SSTL-S1 Earth observation satellites and several secondary payloads from the Satish Dhawan Space Center<\/p>\n

September 17 evening<\/strong>: Moon meets Saturn<\/p>\n

September 17:<\/strong>\u00a0Conjunction of the moon and Saturn<\/p>\n

September 19:\u00a0<\/strong>Mars and Moon meet<\/p>\n

September 19:\u00a0<\/strong>Moon at apogee<\/p>\n

September 20:\u00a0<\/strong>Spacewalk \u2013 two NASA Astronauts \u2013 installation of new batteries in the International Space Station\u2019s P4 Truss 4A power channel.<\/p>\n

September 20:\u00a0<\/strong>Conjunction of the moon and Mars.<\/p>\n

September 21 evening:\u00a0<\/strong>Venus is at its brightest<\/p>\n

September 21:<\/strong>\u00a0Piscid Meteor Shower<\/p>\n

September 22\/23:<\/strong>\u00a0Fall Equinox<\/p>\n

September 24\/25:<\/strong>\u00a0Full Harvest Moon<\/p>\n

September 26:<\/strong>Two NASA astronauts will take the second of two spacewalks in less than one week to install new batteries in the International Space Station’s P4 Truss 2A power channel. The spacewalk will last approximately 6.5 hours<\/p>\n

September 29 overnight:<\/strong>\u00a0Aldebaran buzzes the Moon again<\/p>\n

September 30:<\/strong>\u00a0Algol at minimum brightness<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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