Tag: September Equinox

Late Moon Poses Near Planets and Leaves Evening Dark for a Dolphin Dive, Autumn Brings Meteors, a Comet Shows Potential, and Planets Rule the Night!

The globular cluster NGC 6934 in Delphinus as imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope. It is also known as Caldwell 47. This image covers about 3 arc-minutes of the sky, or 1/10th of the full moon’s diameter. (Wikipedia) Hello, Autumn Stargazers! Here are your Astronomy Skylights for the week of September 22nd, 2024 by Chris…
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The Full Harvest Supermoon Covers Saturn and Dips into Earth’s Umbra, Evening Neptune Peaks near Saturn, the Big Bear Prepares to Nap, and Autumn Arrives!

The bright rays that surround the small bright crater Proclus are missing to the left of the two yellow lines, evidence that the Proclus impactor arrived at a shallow angle from that direction and tossed debris in front of it, partly onto dark Mare Crisium. This feature on the moon is easy to see in…
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