Planet Scenes September 2026
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September 25: Venus in Daylight and Twilight Venus is approximately 35° to the southeast of the Sun, so it should be easily visible in binoculars if the sky is clear and transparent, which it was on this first Friday of autumn in Virginia. We have two daytime views and one twilight view of the brightest planet. |
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September 16: Jupiter and Mars in the Morning Mars has almost completed its journey through Gemini and Jupiter has done the same through Cancer, and they are now less than 24° apart. |
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September 15: Venus in Virgo Venus very low on the southwestern horizon, almost out of sight at the point when the sky is dark enough to capture the stars of Virgo and Libra behind Venus in the same scene. |
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September 14: Venus and Moon Venus and the crescent Moon gathered in the evening sky for a pretty conjunction. |
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September 10: Mars in Gemini Mars is moving through Gemini, approaching its date of alignment with Castor and Pollux, which will be on September 25. |
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September 9 (Morning): Jupiter and Moon One morning after Jupiter's daylight occultation by the Moon, we see the pair still fairly close together rising in the east, with this view being about an hour before sunrise. |
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September 6 (Evening): Venus Venus is gradually pulling away from Spica, but they are still visible as a pair very low in the west a little more than an hour after sunset. Make sure you have an unobstructed western horizon! |
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September 6 (Morning): Saturn and Jupiter The gas giants are well placed in the September morning sky ~ Saturn high up in the southwest, with Neptune to its lower right, while Jupiter is low in the east below the Beehive Cluster of Cancer. Jupiter is depicted in the first two scenes, at different stages of the morning twilight. |