Planet Scenes September 2022
September highlight is Outer Planets
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September 29 Our beautiful early autumn weather began to turn on this Thursday, September 29, as the cloudiness from Hurricane Ian enters our area. Before the deluge arrived, high clouds created conditions ripe for a complete circular 22° halo. |
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September 24 In case it's cloudy on Monday the 26th, I wanted to get a shot of Jupiter closest to opposition to document its brightness, exceptionally bright this year owing to the closeness of opposition to Jupiter's perihelion. We again see Neptune and Juno joining the scene. |
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September 23 We finally got our first day of fall weather here in central Virginia, on the first day of fall as it turned out, and I took advantage by taking my camera and tracker up to the roof of my house to try to get some pictures of the summer constellations over the distant treeline. |
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September 23 Mars has passed the Pleiades and the Hyades/Aldebaran on its way toward the stationary point in its motion in early November. It will retrograde to opposition in mid-December and then barely make it back to being even with Aldebaran at its other stationary point post-opposition before finally resuming its eastward (prograde) motion. |
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September 19 The evening of September 19 was clear and mild here in central Virginia, so I was able to get several shots of the outer planets and a couple of asteroids. From west to east, we have Saturn, then well to the south Vesta, Juno, Neptune, and finally Jupiter. |
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September 9 The full Moon is situated in Aquarius, half way between Jupiter and Saturn. This is the official harvest Moon for 2022, even though it comes several weeks before the autumnal equinox and (I think) before most of the crops are harvested. Good thing all the heavy farm machinery comes equipped with headlights, because I figure it will be closer to new Moon when they do harvest LOL. |
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September 8 The almost full Moon just passed Saturn in Capricornus and over the next few nights will move over to join Jupiter in Pisces. |
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