Star Calendar September 2016 Star Calendar Planets: Moon is New fairly near the Sun’s passing through the middle of eclipse season (near a moon node) but is also near apogee so that it is too distant for its shadow tip to reach earth, making an annular eclipse. Full Moon occurs… Continue reading
By the Dark of the Moon … … indeed the last eclipse was darker than most — but not as dark as I had hoped for. From Spaceweather.com: “LUNAR ECLIPSE DETECTS GLOBAL COOLING (BUT ONLY A LITTLE): On Sept. 27th, people on five continents watched the Moon pass through the… Continue reading
Star Calendar September 2015 Star Calendar Planets: Moon will be waning as September opens and the ecliptic especially steep to the horizon in the morning. This circumstance will show especially thin and horizontal crescents on the 11/12th. New Moon begins the Hebrew new year (Rosh Hashanah) 5776 Anno Mundi. Moon’s… Continue reading
Star Calendar September 2007 Star Calendar Planets: Mercury will make a poor appearance in the western evening sky in mid-September. It will dash to the eastern morning sky by late October. Venus will quickly rise into the eastern pre-dawn sky in September and will shine beside Regulus and Saturn by… Continue reading