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Saturday August 26, 2017 at 8:00 PM

Status updated by our Observatory Director on Saturday, August 26, 2017 at 9:27 AM:

Clear skies are forecasted for this evening. We'll have a 5-day old Moon
and many Messier objects in Sagittarius are on the observing list.
We'll start at 8:00pm with a presentation on Star Maps followed by observing session.

Public Observing Event
at the ACA Observatory

 

Presentation: Star Maps
 

Our presentation will be followed by an
observing session. The constellation Sagittarius
is filled with Messier Objects and we’ll
try to find all of them tonight!

  Click for MAP & DIRECTIONS to ACA Observatory

.Visible satellite passes from the ACA Observatory:

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Solar System objects rise/transit/set times from the ACA Observatory on the date of this event...

     
Sunset:     8:10 pm  (EDT)
Civil Twilight:     8:36 pm  (EDT)
Nautical Twilight:     9:11 pm  (EDT)
Astronomical Twilight:     9:47 pm  (EDT)
Moonrise:   11:43 am  (EDT) 8/26/2017
Moon transit:     5:28 pm  (EDT) 8/26/2017
Moonset:   11:06 pm  (EDT) 8/26/2017
Moon phase:   28.4% (waxing crescent)





The Moon will look like this afternoon

 

Be sure to hit the REFRESH / RELOAD button on your browser
(or the <F5> key on your keyboard) for up-to-date information for the Clear Sky Chart below...

Live AccuWeather Satellite Mosaic


Jet Stream
(
updates automatically to latest available image)
    The Jet Stream affects astronomical "seeing" (steadiness of the air)
    If we're in a gray area, seeing will not be as good as in a white area.
    If we're in a white area, the shorter the arrows, the better.

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