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Sep
23
Tue
Hermanus Whale Festival
Sep 23 @ 12:54 am – Sep 30 @ 1:54 am
Hermanus Whale Festival

Situated near Africa’s southernmost tip, Hermanus has a front-row view of the Cape Whale Route. During migrating season, people flock to the clifftops to glimpse the endangered southern right whale. Given that it overlooks Walker Bay, into which 70 whales have squeezed, the town once took its blubber-related fortune for granted. In an attempt to formalise the clifftop viewing, it started its festival and introduced the Whale Crier. The world’s only such crier, his blasts on the kelp horn are coded to direct eager cetacean-spotters.

Read more here.

Sep
26
Fri
Galway Oyster Festival
Sep 26 @ 12:50 am – Sep 28 @ 1:50 am
Galway Oyster Festival

The Galway Oyster Festival is dedicated to Ostrea edulis, the European flat oyster. The local molluscs are left to grow for three years in the clean waters of Brandon Bay and Clarenbridge, blooming into a juicy delicacy. Tens of thousands of the slippery critters are consumed on the Guinness Oyster Trail, on which 30 pubs give out free trays of the seafood with pints of the dark stuff.

Read more here.

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.

Vesta and the Moon
Sep 28 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Vesta and the Moon

The moon passes just south of the asteroid Vesta in the constellation Libra.

Sep
29
Mon
Double shadow transit on Jupiter
Sep 29 @ 12:09 am – 1:09 am
Double shadow transit on Jupiter

The shadows of Europa and Callisto cross the face of Jupiter simultaneously, best seen from India and central Asia.

Oct
7
Tue
Full Hunter’s Moon @ Earth
Oct 7 – Oct 8 all-day
Full Hunter's Moon @ Earth

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.

Oct
22
Wed
Partial Solar Eclipse @ Earth
Oct 22 – Oct 23 all-day
Partial Solar Eclipse @ Earth

The moon’s penumbral shadow will fall over much of North America as well as extreme eastern Siberia, producing a partial solar eclipse.

If you’re reading from M’Clintock Channel, an arm of the Arctic Ocean which divides Victoria Island from Prince of Wales Island in the Territory of Nunavut, Canada, you’ll see  more than 80 percent of the sun’s diameter covered by the moon! The rest of North America will see less of the sun covered, but it’s still worth a trip outside to watch.  The Pacific Northwest and the Northern Plains will witness more than 60 percent of the sun’s diameter eclipsed. Across the Ohio, Tennessee and Mississippi valleys, the maximum eclipse will coincide with sunset, while farther to the east, the moon will only begin its encroachment onto the sun’s disk as it sets.

Nov
5
Wed
Full Beaver Moon @ Earth
Nov 5 – Nov 6 all-day
Full Beaver Moon @ Earth

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.

Dec
5
Fri
Full Cold Moon @ Earth
Dec 5 – Dec 6 all-day
Full Cold Moon @ Earth

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.