Mercury\nleaves the evening sky, goes through inferior conjunction, and enters\nthe morning sky this month. It’ll be better in the morning sky for\nnorthern hemisphere sky watchers this month than it was in the\nevening for them last month. It’ll take until the last few days of\nthe month to show up though.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Venus\ngoes through superior conjunction next month. But it’s already hard\nto see in the morning sky. You will likely need binoculars to pull it\nout of the morning light in the east. The planet will be at\nperihelion on the 4th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mars\npasses close to Ain in the Hyades early in the month and continues\nmoving eastward. It rises late evening and is easy to find the rest\nof the night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The\nbest planet to view this month is Jupiter. It will be at opposition\non the 26th<\/sup>.\nAnd it will be the closest to Earth that it’s been since 1963. If you\ncan look at the planet in a telescope, you will get the best views of\nits famous red spot, some of its moons’ shadows on its disk, and the\ncloud bands. Jupiter is rising in early evening when September\nstarts. It rises earlier each evening until it’s up all night around\nopposition. Then, it won’t be as close to us again until 2129.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Saturn\nwas at opposition last month. It’s up most of the night, already a\nlittle above the horizon in the east at sunset.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The\nmoon is at first quarter on the 3rd<\/sup>,\nit’s full on the 10th<\/sup>,\nit’s at last quarter on the 17th<\/sup>,\nand it’s new on the 25th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Southern\nlunistice occurs on the 5th<\/sup>\nat 27.2 degrees from the equator. It crosses the equator on the 11th<\/sup>\nand reaches northern lunistice on the 18th<\/sup>\nat 27.3 degrees. The moon goes south of the equator again on the\n26th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lunar\nperigee is on the 7th<\/sup>\nat 364,600 kilometers. Apogee is on the 19th<\/sup>\nat 404,500 kilometers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The\nequinox is on the 23rd<\/sup>\nat 01:04 Universal Time. Mercury is at inferior conjunction the same\nday. Jupiter’s opposition is on the 26th<\/sup>\nat 3.953 astronomical units or 591.4 million kilometers from us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Mercury leaves the evening sky, goes through inferior conjunction, and enters the morning sky this month. It’ll be better in the morning sky for northern hemisphere sky watchers this month than it was in the evening for them last month. It’ll take until the last few days of the month to show up though. Venus […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-61"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/monthly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/monthly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/monthly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/monthly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/monthly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/monthly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":838,"href":"https:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/monthly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837\/revisions\/838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/monthly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/monthly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/monthly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}