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

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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