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What’s Up in September

04 Sep - the gibbous Moon and Jupiter rise at the same instant in the ENE sky in late evening.

06 Sep - Last Quarter Moon

12 Sep - zodiacal light visible to the east in dark pre-dawn skies for the next two weeks

14 Sep - New Moon (21:40EDT)

16 Sep - daytime occultation of Mars by Moon (only 20º from the Sun, probably impossible to see)

19 Sep - Venus at greatest illuminated extent

19 Sep - Neptune at opposition

22 Sep - Mercury at greatest elongation west in the dawn sky

22 Sep - First Quarter Moon

23 Sep - autumnal equinox (02:50EDT) - the Sun is over the equator moving into the southern sky, astronomical autumn begins.

29 Sep - Full Moon (05:57EDT)

The Planets at Mid-Month

Mars (mag 1.7) is very very low in the western sky after sunset.

Saturn (mag 0.5) is well up in the SE by the end of twilight and transits just before midnight.

Neptune (mag 7.8) rises at sunset and transits about 01:15EDT.

Jupiter (mag -2.7) rises in the ENE sky during evening twilight and is 60º (!!) up when it transits about 04:30EDT. 

Uranus (mag 5.7) follows Jupiter by just under 8º and transits about 05:00EDT, even higher in the sky than Jupiter.

Venus (mag -4.8) is 20º above the eastern horizon when nautical twilight begins at 05:40EDT.

Mercury (mag 1.3) is low in the east as civil twilight begins at 06:15EDT, 24º to the lower left of Venus. It brightens nearly 2 magnitudes and gets a few degrees higher over the following week as it approaches GEW on the 22nd. Best dawn apparition of this year.