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Saturday September 1, 2018 at 8:15 PM |
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Status updated by our Observatory Director on Saturday,
September 1, 2018 at 6:47 PM |
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The forecast calls for mostly cloudy skies with a chance
of thunderstorms
this evening. As a result our star party has been
CANCELLED |
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Public Observing Event
at the ACA Observatory:
Globular Clusters
The sky is filled with globular clusters and we’ll be
observing many of them tonight. Also, we'll view the
Coathanger star cluster and M26 star cloud through the 100mm
wide field telescope.
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.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... |
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Sunset: |
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8:01 pm
(EDT) |
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Civil Twilight: |
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8:27 pm
(EDT) |
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Nautical Twilight: |
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9:00 pm
(EDT) |
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Astronomical Twilight: |
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9:35 pm
(EDT) |
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Moonrise: |
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11:30
pm
(EDT) 9/1/2018 |
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Moon transit: |
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6:41
am
(EDT) 9/2/2018 |
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Moonset: |
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2:00
pm
(EDT) 9/2/2018 |
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Moon phase: |
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61.48%
(waning gibbous) |
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The Moon will look like this today
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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...
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ical "seeing" (steadiness of the air), the shorter the arrows, the better.
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