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Saturday September 8, 2018 at 8:00 PM

Status updated by our Observatory Director on Saturday, September 8, 2018 at 8:23 AM

This event has been CANCELLED due to weather conditions.

Public Observing Event
at the ACA Observatory
:

Sagittarius
 
The constellation Sagittarius hosts many Messier Objects and we’ll try to find all of them tonight; including, the Butterfly Cluster that we’ll view with observatory telescope & 100mm wide field telescope. Sky Tour: Summer Constellations.
 

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.Visible satellite passes from the ACA Observatory:

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

 
     
Sunset:     7:49 pm  (EDT)
Civil Twilight:     8:15 pm  (EDT)
Nautical Twilight:     8:48 pm  (EDT)
Astronomical Twilight:     9:22 pm  (EDT)
Moonrise:     5:22 am  (EDT)  9/8/2018
Moon transit:   12:32 pm  (EDT)  9/8/2018
Moonset:     7:32 pm  (EDT)  9/8/2018
Moon phase:     0.83% (waning crescent)





The Moon will look like this today

 

 

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ical "seeing" (steadiness of the air), the shorter the arrows, the better.

 

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