Episode 354 – Observing Calendar For September 2023 Show Notes

Sept 1 – Neptune 1.4-degrees N of the Moon

Sept 4 – Jupiter 3-degrees S of the Moon

Sept 5 – Uranus 3-degrees S of the Moon

What all this means is these planets are closeby in the sky as I don’t think they are close for here in NA.

Sept. 6 – Last quarter Moon

Sept 10 – Follow Capella into the daytime sky with the unaided eye this week

Sept 15 – Zodiacal Light becomes visible later this month, in E in morning.

Sept 19 – Venus at greatest illumination Difficult extent and Neptune at Opposition

Sept 22 – Lunar X, Lunar Straight Wall and Mercury at Greatest Elongation, 18-degrees from Sun, in morning sky.

Sept 23 – Fall Equinox

Sept 24 – Large Tides this week and follow Sirius into daytime with unaided eye, Mike has been doing some of this

Sept 26 – Saturn 3-degree NE of the Moon tonight

Sept 29 – Full Moon

Comet from Skyhound

New Comet Discovery C/2023 P1 (Nishimura) was discovered by H. Nishimura in images taken on Aug. 11 UT, at Gomyo, Kakegawa, Japan with a digital camera.This new 10th magnitude comet is low in the eastern sky before dawn. It has been observed visually, and is said to be relatively easy to spot, even though it is low on the horizon.

Doubles Stars

Almaak in Andromeda is one of my favourites – a yellow and blue pair

Miram in Perseus – Light orange and blue/green pair