Astroblog: Thursday September 4 to Thursday September 11

Tuesday, September 02, 2025

Thursday September 4 to Thursday September 11

The Full Moon is Monday September 8. There is a Total Lunar Eclipse on the morning of the 8th. Mars is passing through Virgo heading towards the star Spica. Saturn is rising in the early evening and is the brightest object above the eastern horizon. On the 8th the Full Moon is close to Saturn. Venus and Jupiter are visible in the morning twilight and are drawing apart. Jupiter is close to the star Wasat in Gemini on the 7th

The Full Moon is Monday September 8. There is a Total Lunar Eclipse on the morning of the 8th. The Moon is at perigee, when it is closest to Earth, on the 10th.

North-eastern twilight sky on the morning of Sunday, September 7 as seen from Adelaide at 05:32 ACST (60 minutes before sunrise, click to embiggen).

Jupiter is spectacularly close to the star Wasat (𝛅 Geminorum, not visible in this image as Jupiter is too close to it). Jupiter forms a triangle with Procyon and Betelgeuse. Venus is becoming harder to see low above the horizon

The insets are the telescopic views of Venus and Jupiter at this time. and the binocular view of Jupiter and Wasat.

Similar views will be seen from the rest of Australia at roughly the equivalent local time (60 minutes before sunrise).

Eastern sky on the evening of Saturday, September 6 as seen from Adelaide at 22:00 ACST (click to embiggen).

Saturn is rising higher above the eastern horizon. The insets shows the telescopic view at this time .

Similar views will be seen from the rest of Australia at roughly the equivalent local time.

North-western sky on Saturday, September 6 as seen from Adelaide at 19:24 ACST (90 minutes after sunset, click to embiggen). Mars is heading towards the bright star Spica.

Similar views will be seen from the rest of Australia at roughly the equivalent local time (90 minutes after sunset).

Western horizon as seen from Adelaide on 8 September at 3:42 ACST. The Moon is at totality. The inset shows the telescopic/binocular view at this time. Click to embiggen.

Further details and exact timing for several Australian cities are at this link.
https://astroblogger.blogspot.com/2025/08/total-lunar-eclipse-september-8-2025.html

Similar views will be seen from the rest of Australia at roughly the equivalent local time.

Whole sky on Saturday, September 6 as seen from Adelaide at 19:24 ACST, 90 minutes after sunset (click to embiggen).

Mars is in the north-west.

Bright Achernar is rising from the Southern horizon. Scorpius is westering and the galactic core is at the Zenith.

The Southern Cross is sinking in the Southern sky. The moon is waxing and the fainter clusters and nebula are becoming harder to see.

Elsewhere in Australia will see a similar view at the equivalent time (90 minutes after sunset).

Mercury is lost in the morning twilight.

Venus is lowering in the morning twilight moving away from Jupiter.

Mars is lowering in the evening sky and passing through Virgo towards Spica.

Jupiter climbs in the morning twilight above Venus. Jupiter forms a triangle with Procyon and Betelgeuse.

Saturn is rising when the sky is fully dark, but is best in the late evening.

Printable PDF maps of the Eastern sky at 10 pm AEST, Western sky at 10 pm AEST. For further details and more information on what's up in the sky, see Southern Skywatch.

Star Map via Virtual sky. Use your mouse to scroll around and press 8 when your pointer is in the map to set to the current time.

Cloud cover predictions can be found at SkippySky.

Here is the near-real time satellite view of the clouds (day and night) http://satview.bom.gov.au/

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