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Thursday September 8 to Thursday September 15

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The Full Moon is Sunday, September 10. Three bright classical planets in a line in the morning sky, Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars. Mars is below the red star Aldebaran and the Hyades cluster.  Jupiter is now readily visible in the late evening sky below Saturn.  The Moon is close to Jupiter on the 11th. Mercury is sinking in the evening twilight this week.

The Full Moon is Sunday, September 10.

Morning sky on Saturday, September 10 as seen from Adelaide at 04:59 ACST (90 minutes before sunrise). Mars below the Hyades and the bright red star Aldebaran.

 

Similar views will be seen from the rest of Australia at the equivalent local time (90 minutes before sunrise. click to embiggen). 

 Evening sky on Sunday September 11 as seen from Adelaide at 21:00 am ACST. 

Saturn forms a shallow triangle with delta and gamma Capricornii. 

The waxing Moon is close to Jupiter .

The insets are the telescopic views of Saturn and Jupiter at the same magnification at this time.

 Similar views will be seen from the rest of Australia at the equivalent local time.  

 

Evening sky on September 10 as seen from Adelaide at 18:58 pm ACST (60 minutes after sunset). 

Mercury is sinking in the twilight and is relatively easy to see below the bright star Spica .

Similar views will be seen from the rest of Australia at the equivalent local time (60 minutes after sunset).

 

 

Whole sky on Saturday, September 10, 19:27 ACST, 90 minutes after sunset (click to embiggen). The Milky Way stretches across the mid-sky and the centre of the galaxy is prominent. Mercury and Saturn are both visible.

Scorpius is prominent above the northern horizon with the teapot of Sagittarius below. From the Sting of the Scorpion through the teapot there is a wealth of binocular objects to discover.

Between the bright star Canopus and the Southern Cross are another wealth of binocular objects to discover. However the Full Moon will make these harder to see.

  

 Elsewhere in Australia will see a similar view at the equivalent time (90 minutes after sunset). 

Mercury is visible above the western horizon in the twilight below the bright star Spica.

Venus is lost in the twilight.

Mars is below the Hyades and the red star Aldebaran. 

Jupiter climbs higher in the late evening sky. Jupiter is near the Full Moon on the 11th.

Saturn forms a shallow triangle with delta and gamma Capricornii. Saturn was at opposition, when it was biggest and brightest as seen from Earth, on the 15th of August.

Printable PDF maps of the Eastern sky at 10 pm AEST, Western sky at 10 pm AEST. For further details and more information on what’s up in the sky, see Southern Skywatch.

 

Star Map via Virtual sky. Use your mouse to scroll around and press 8 when your pointer is in the map to set to the current time.

Cloud cover predictions can be found at SkippySky.

Here is the near-real time satellite view of the clouds (day and night) http://satview.bom.gov.au/


Source: http://astroblogger.blogspot.com/2022/09/thursday-september-8-to-thursday.html


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