Public Sky Observing 2021-09/10

When:
September 10, 2021 @ 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm
2021-09-10T20:00:00-05:00
2021-09-10T22:00:00-05:00
Where:
Watson Soccer Field
1000 Essex Pkwy NW
Rochester
MN 55901
Cost:
Free

Public Sky Observing of the young Moon – 4.4 days after New Moon, planets Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, bright stars, double stars, and more by telescope with guidance members of the Rochester Astronomy Club.

Here are three features on the Moon terminator, which you can try to spot in telescope:

Hercules is a prominent 69 km crater located to the west of the crater Atlas.
Sinus Amoris extends northward from the northeast end of the Mare Tranquillitatis.
Janssen is an ancient impact 201 km crater located in the highland region.


Moon on Friday 9/10 at 8 PM. Click to open full image in the new tab

Moon on Friday September 10th evening

Credit: NASA Scientific Visualization Studio

Moon first quarter Fridays: 1/22, 2/19, 3/19, 4/16, 5/21, 6/18, 7/16, 8/13, 9/10, 10/15, 11/12, 12/10.


In the Sky September/2021, Phases of the Moon 2021, Holidays 2021


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Month Day DoW Start End ☽ age Planets
May 15 Sat 9:00 11:00 3.8 ☿,♀,♂
May 21 Fri 9:30 11:30 9.8 ☿,♀,♂
Jun 12 Sat 9:45 11:45 2.4 ♀,♂
Jun 18 Fri 9:45 11:45 8.4 ♀,♂
Jul 10 Sat 9:30 11:30 1.0 ♀,♂,♄
Jul 16 Fri 9:30 11:30 7.0 ♀,♂,♃,♄,⛢
Aug 7 Sat 8:30 10:30 29.0 ☿,♀,♂,♃,♄,⛢
Aug 13 Fri 8:30 10:30 5.7 ☿,♀,♂,♃,♄,⛢
Sep 4 Sat 8:00 10:00 27.5 ☿,♀,♃,♄,♆,⛢
Sep 10 Fri 8:00 10:00 4.4 ♀,♃,♄,♆,⛢
Oct 94 Sat 7 9 4.0 ♀,♃,♄,♆,⛢
Oct 15 Fri 7 9 10.4 ♀,♃,♄,♆,⛢
Nov 12 Fri 6 8 8.9 ♀,♃,♄,♆,⛢
Dec 10 Fri 6 8 7.4 ☿,♀,♃,♄,♆,⛢
event September 4 previous next October 9

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Day upper index4 means 4 weeks gap instead of regular 3 weeks.
☿ – Mercury, ♀ – Venus, ♂ – Mars, ♃ – Jupiter, ♄ – Saturn, ⛢ – Uranus, ♆ – Neptune,