🌙 Moon

Last quarter Sun 14 Sept 12:33 CEST; Monday evening near Saturn in Pisces.

✨ Moon × Pleiades (Fri 12 Sept evening)

Ingress: Electra 22:08, Celaeno 22:25, Merope 22:40, Maia 22:45, Alcyone 23:03, Pleione 23:52. Egress: Celaeno 22:48, Electra 22:56, Maia 23:11, Merope 23:13, Alcyone 23:46, Pleione 0:10.

🪐 Planets

• ☿ Mercury (≈ −1.7 mag): in superior conjunction with the Sun, visible only in the SOHO coronagraph as short streaks.
• ♀ Venus (−3.9 mag): the brightest morning object, clearly visible before 6:00 low above the eastern horizon.
• ♂ Mars (1.6 mag): angularly close to the Sun, practically unobservable.
• ♃ Jupiter (−2 mag): in the morning high above the SSE; the moons, their phenomena, and the Great Red Spot are easily seen.
• 🪐 Saturn (0.6 mag): visible all night; highest around 2:00 above the southern horizon.
• ♅ Uranus (5.7 mag): about 4° below the Pleiades; an easy binocular target.
• ♆ Neptune (7.8 mag): ~2° from Saturn, appears as a faint star; a telescope and chart recommended.

☀️ Solar Activity

Activity is fairly high. Weak flares have launched plasma clouds, which brought faint auroras — better suited for photography. For current developments, follow Spaceweather.com, Solarham, and Spaceweatherlive; SDO images show sunspots well.

Author: Martin Gembec