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Aug
17
Sun
Jupiter Venus Conjunction @ Earth
Aug 17 – Aug 19 all-day
Jupiter Venus Conjunction @ Earth

Rise and shine if you want to catch this spectacular sight, which will take place Aug. 18 and 19 in the Southern Hemisphere.

Sky gazers will get the opportunity to watch as two brilliant and bright planets- Venus and Jupiter- experience a close encounter with each other, making for one beautiful night sky display.

Aug
31
Sun
Triple Moon Conjunction @ Earth
Aug 31 @ 4:15 am – 5:15 am

liveseasoned_fullmoonSounds pretty fancy, right?  It simply means three solar system bodies coming together, not in distance, but in perspective.  For star watchers it means some pretty sweet night sights!  It’s particularly exciting when the moon and planets are involved.

This time a crescent moon, Mars and Saturn will cluster together in a bright and beautiful display around dusk.

Sep
7
Sun
Full Harvest Moon
Sep 7 – Sep 8 all-day
Full Harvest Moon

Take a peek at the sky tonight and you’ll see a full moon.  A full moon is when the moon and the sun are opposite of each other from an earth perspective.

Sep
10
Wed
Uranus and the Moon
Sep 10 @ 10:00 pm – 10:15 pm
Uranus and the Moon

The waning gibbous moon passes just north of Uranus in the constellation Pisces. The moon will occult Uranus as seen from eastern Canada, Greenland, and northern Siberia.

Sep
13
Sat
Farm Aid
Sep 13 @ 12:52 am – Sep 14 @ 1:52 am
Farm Aid

The longest-running series of benefit concerts in America, Farm Aid grew out of a comment made by the Bob Dylan at the Live Aid concert in Philadelphia. Suggesting it would be great if the musical community could help America’s struggling family farms as well, Dylan inspired Neil Young, Willie Nelson and John Mellencamp to organise an event. The first Farm Aid took place two months later in Champaign, Illinois and raised $7 million. Two decades later, the concerts have raised more than $30 million and featured great American axe wielders such as Tom Petty, Stevie Ray Vaughan, the Grateful Dead (by satellite in 1987) and, of course, the organizers.

Read more here.

Sep
14
Sun
Aldebaran and the Moon
Sep 14 @ 11:57 pm – Sep 15 @ 12:12 am
Aldebaran and the Moon

The waning last quarter moon will pass just north of the bright star Aldebaran in the constellation Taurus.

Sep
21
Sun
Mercury close to Spica
Sep 21 @ 11:58 pm – Sep 22 @ 12:13 am
Mercury close to Spica

The planet Mercury will pass close to the bright star Spica in Virgo. This is a particularly good apparition of Mercury for observers in the Southern Hemisphere, less so for northerners.

Sep
22
Mon
Equinox
Sep 22 @ 10:30 pm – 10:45 pm
Equinox

The sun crosses the celestial equator moving southward. Day and Night are of equal length. The sun rises due east and sets due west everywhere on Earth. This is the autumnal equinox in the Northern Hemisphere, the vernal equinox (Spring) in the Southern Hemisphere.

Sep
27
Sat
Ceres and the Moon
Sep 27 @ 9:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Ceres and the Moon

The moon passes just south of the dwarf planet Ceres in the constellation Libra.

Sep
28
Sun
Saturn and the Moon
Sep 28 @ 12:00 am – 1:00 am
Saturn and the Moon

The moon passes just north of the Saturn in the constellation Libra.