Episode 446 – The Observer’s Calendar for September 2024 Show Notes

Sept 1 – Zodiacal light becomes visible this month
- Mercury is also paired with the Moon in morning, but might be tough
Sept 3 – New Moon
Sept 5 – Mercury at Greatest Elongation 18-degrees from Sun in Morning Sky
Sept 8 – Saturn at Opposition
- Mars 0.9 degrees from OC M35 after midnight
Sept 9 – Mercury 0.5 degrees North of Regulus in morning sky
Sept 10 – Antares Occultation by the Moon for places like Australia and Indonesia
Sept 11 – First Quarter Moon
Sept 17 – Saturn Occulted by the Moon – Visible barely here just about 5:30am so you want to ideally be west of the Saskatchewan ‘/ / Alberta Border…straight through NA.
Sept 18 – Partial Lunar Eclipse – Best visible from Brazil and region but most of Eastern NA and Western Europe and Africa
- It is a small partial..just a little chunk goes through the Umbra
- At 1:15 am SK Time…so that’s 3:15 am EDT the Moon Occults Neptune for most of us in NA except far southern reaches of USA.
Sept 21 – Neptune at Opposition
Sept 22 – Equinox
- Moon 0.2-degrees from Pleiades
Sept 25 – last quarter Moon

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