{"id":22638,"date":"2020-09-01T15:00:41","date_gmt":"2020-09-01T19:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=22638"},"modified":"2020-09-01T15:15:21","modified_gmt":"2020-09-01T19:15:21","slug":"night-sky-highlights-for-september-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=22638","title":{"rendered":"Night sky highlights for September 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>** <strong>What&#8217;s Up: September 2020<\/strong> &#8211; Skywatching Tips from NASA JPL<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">What are some skywatching highlights in September 2020? Spot the Moon together with Mars and Venus, along with the flickering star Fomalhaut, which had itself a planet&#8230;until it didn&#8217;t! Additional information about topics covered in this episode of What&#8217;s Up, along with still images from the video, and the video transcript, are available at <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/solarsystem.nasa.gov\/whats-up-skywatching-tips-from-nasa\/\">https:\/\/solarsystem.nasa.gov\/whats-up&#8230;<\/a><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\"> .<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GjqvXVUWvEQ?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>** <strong>Tonight&#8217;s Sky: September<\/strong> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/spacetelescopevision\/videos\" target=\"_d\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Space Telescope Science Institute &#8211; YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>In September, Pegasus becomes increasingly prominent in the southeastern sky, allowing stargazers to locate globular star clusters and a nearby double star, Alpha Capricorni. Keep watching for space-based views of densely packed, spherical collections of ancient stars in visible and X-ray light.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IaiR2KJBp-0?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>** <span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\"><strong>What&#8217;s in the Night Sky September 2020<\/strong> <\/span><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">Aurora Borealis | Harvest Moon &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/AlynWallace\/videos\" target=\"_d\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alyn Wallace &#8211; YouTube<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZY4MXfeH_EQ?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>** <strong>What to see in the night sky, September 2020<\/strong> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/bbcskyatnightmag\/videos\" target=\"_d\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BBC Sky at Night Magazine &#8211; YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">What can you see in the night sky? Astronomers Pete Lawrence and Paul Abel reveal their stargazing tips for September 2020. In 2020 we&#8217;re celebrating 15 years of our Virtual Planetarium: <\/span><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.skyatnightmagazine.com\/space-science\/history-bbc-sky-at-night-magazines-virtual-planetarium\/\"><em>https:\/\/www.skyatnightmagazine.com\/sp&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HBbPC9DeF28?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>** <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/science\/skywatch-whats-happening-in-the-heavens-in-september\/2020\/08\/29\/53e86f48-e940-11ea-97e0-94d2e46e759b_story.html\"><strong>Skywatch: What\u2019s happening in the heavens in September<\/strong> &#8211; The Washington Post<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>For September\u2019s night sky, scan the southern heavens to see bright <b>Jupiter <\/b>and a dim <b>Saturn<\/b>. 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Spot the Moon together with Mars and Venus, along with the flickering star Fomalhaut, which had itself a planet&#8230;until it didn&#8217;t! Additional information about topics covered in this episode of What&#8217;s Up, along with still images &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=22638\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Night sky highlights for September 2020<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,22,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-education","category-space-participation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-5T8","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24280,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=24280","url_meta":{"origin":22638,"position":0},"title":"Night sky highlights for September 2021","author":"TopSpacer","date":"September 1, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"** What's Up: September 2021 Skywatching Tips from NASA - NASA JPL What are some skywatching highlights in September 2021? 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