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Saturday October 6, 2018 at 7:45 PM

Status updated by our Observatory Director on Saturday, October 6, 2018 at 6:40 PM

I'm going to head up to the observatory and arrive at 7:45pm.
If the skies are clear, I'll open the observatory.
If the skies are cloudy, the observatory will remain closed.

Public Observing Event
at the ACA Observatory
:

Planetary Nebulae Night
 
Ring Nebula, Cat’s Eye Nebula, Blue Snowball, Blue Flash Nebula, Saturn Nebula, & Blinking Nebula. Also, view Herschel’s Garnet Star.
 

  Click for MAP & DIRECTIONS to ACA Observatory

.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:     7:02 pm  (EDT)
Civil Twilight:     7:27 pm  (EDT)
Nautical Twilight:     7:59 pm  (EDT)
Astronomical Twilight:     8:31 pm  (EDT)
Moonrise:     4:14 am  (EDT)  10/6/2018
Moon transit:   11:14 am  (EDT)  10/6/2018
Moonset:     6:074 pm  (EDT)  10/6/2018
Moon phase:     6.3% (waning crescent)





The Moon will look like this today

 

 

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e

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

 

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