Actual Astronomy - Observer’s Calendar For September
Release Date: 09/04/2025
Actual Astronomy - Observer’s Calendar For September
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Hosted by Chris Beckett & Shane Ludtke, two amateur astronomers in Saskatchewan. - Sept 1 - Aurigids ZHR=10 related to Comet Keiss The comet was discovered by Carl Clarence Kiess at Lick Observatory on a photographic plate obtained in the morning hours of 6 July 1911 with the Crocker photographic telescope. The comet appeared as a distorted nebulous object with a short tail. The presence of the comet was confirmed visually the next day. The comet had a well condensed nucleus and a faint tail. In photographs the tail was four degrees long. The comet then was of seventh magnitude and moving...
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Cheap Astronomy - Dear Cheap Astro Ep. 123: The Big Questions
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Asking questions and not always answering them. Is there hope? Well, sure. The question arises where the Drake Equation, aiming to quantify the likely number of detectable intelligent civilizations out there includes a term representing the inherent risk of any intelligent civilization destroying itself. It is just a risk, could be low could be high, but its wide acceptance as a part of the whole equation does suggest we have some pessimism about our own future. Could dark matter be black holes? Well, no. Firstly. we've discussed before how black holes can't really be dark matter. Dark...
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Exoplanet Radio Ep. 41: Exoplanet Secondary Eclipses: Catching a Planet in the Shadows
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Hosted by Tony Darnell. From Oct 11, 2023. Over the course of this show, we’ve talked many, many times about the Transit Method for detecting exoplanets. It is simply the measure of a star's decrease in brightness as the star passes through our line of sight. This once difficult measurement has now become commonplace and can even be done with advanced amateur astronomy equipment under a reasonably dark sky. From this measurement, we can infer a few things about the planets passing by: we can get an indication of its size and if we measure several transits, we can...
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Astronomy Cast Ep. 126: From Skeptics Guide With Questions
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From February 9, 2009. This week Bob Novella of the Skeptics Guide to the Universe podcast is going to pepper Pamela with questions, testing her ability to leap from tides to gravitational waves to Higgs bosons. We’ll see where this takes us on this skeptical journey through what is known and what we’re trying to learn about this Universe. [Editor’s note: A small bit of audio at the start of two of Bob’s questions was lost due to a technical glitch. So I inserted a coo-coo clock sound effect. Things were going coo-coo after all…] We've added a new way to donate to 365 Days of...
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Travelers in the Night Eps. 327 & 328: Suddenly Bright & The Heat is On
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Dr. Al Grauer hosts. Dr. Albert D. Grauer ( ) is an observational asteroid hunting astronomer. Dr. Grauer retired from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock in 2006. From October & November 2024. Today's 2 topics: - An example that a relatively large space rock can approach the Earth suddenly started with what appeared as a bright star moving across the images that I had just obtained with the Catalina Sky Survey's 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona. It was about 100 times brighter than most of Earth approaching objects asteroid hunters discover. Over the next 64 hours it was...
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UNAWE Space Scoop - A Mysterious Notification From a Dying Massive Star
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In January 2025, astronomers woke up to an alert of a mysterious event that occurred 2.8 billion light years away from Earth. As such things go, this was fairly close to Earth and was an opportunity for detailed observation of the event’s evolution. It was a powerful burst of X-rays, known as a fast X-ray transient or FXT. This burst was named ‘EP 250108a’, after the Einstein Probe, that’s the EP part, that detected the event. Let’s call it 108a. Just between us… FXTs are generally hard to detect and occur far from the Earth. They only last between a few seconds to a...
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EVSN - Dual Quasars, Tidal Disruption Events & a Halo For Andromeda
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From August 31, 2020. Join us today as we examine observations for dual quasars in the process of merging and a star being torn apart by its supermassive black hole. Plus, Hubble data used to map a halo around the Andromeda galaxy. We've added a new way to donate to 365 Days of Astronomy to support editing, hosting, and production costs. Just visit: and donate as much as you can! Share the podcast with your friends and send the Patreon link to them too! Every bit helps! Thank you! ------------------------------------ Do go visit for cool Astronomy Cast and CosmoQuest...
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Space Stories - Galaxies Don’t Crash, They Remix
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Hosted by our Director, Avivah Yamani. Today's podcast guides you through the slow-motion meeting of the Milky Way and Andromeda. Learn why stars mostly miss each other, how gravity sculpts tidal tails, and how colliding gas and dust spark starbursts—turning two spirals into one remixed galaxy. Epic? Yes. Doomsday? Nope. We've added a new way to donate to 365 Days of Astronomy to support editing, hosting, and production costs. Just visit: and donate as much as you can! Share the podcast with your friends and send the Patreon link to them too! Every bit helps! Thank you!...
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Guide to Space - An Intermediate Mass Black Hole Found in the Milky Way. 100,000 Times the Mass of the Sun
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From Sep 8, 2017. Astronomers have been searching for mid-weight black holes, and now they’ve found one, right here in the Milky Way. We've added a new way to donate to 365 Days of Astronomy to support editing, hosting, and production costs. Just visit: and donate as much as you can! Share the podcast with your friends and send the Patreon link to them too! Every bit helps! Thank you! ------------------------------------ Do go visit for cool Astronomy Cast and CosmoQuest t-shirts, coffee mugs and other awesomeness! This show is made possible through your...
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Deep Astronomy - A Journey into a Black Hole Collision
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Hosted by Tony Darnell. From Apr 26, 2016. Black holes have been largely theoretical until the LIGO observations announced earlier this year. Thanks to those observations, we now have another way to study and observe these amazing celestial objects. Original Music by Mark C. Petersen, Loch Ness Productions We've added a new way to donate to 365 Days of Astronomy to support editing, hosting, and production costs. Just visit: and donate as much as you can! Share the podcast with your friends and send the Patreon link to them too! Every bit helps! Thank...
info_outlineHosted by Chris Beckett & Shane Ludtke, two amateur astronomers in Saskatchewan. [email protected]
- Sept 1 - Aurigids ZHR=10 related to Comet Keiss
The comet was discovered by Carl Clarence Kiess at Lick Observatory on a photographic plate obtained in the morning hours of 6 July 1911 with the Crocker photographic telescope. The comet appeared as a distorted nebulous object with a short tail. The presence of the comet was confirmed visually the next day. The comet had a well condensed nucleus and a faint tail. In photographs the tail was four degrees long. The comet then was of seventh magnitude and moving southwards. A preliminary orbit suggested the comet was past its perihelion upon discovery and it was calculated that it would approach Earth at a distance of 0.27 AU (40 million km; 25 million mi) on 20 August. On 19 August the comet was reported to be visible with the naked eye, peaking at an estimated apparent magnitude of 5.
The comet had been suggested in 1911 to be the return of comet C/1790 A1 (Herschel), also known by its old designation, 1790 I.However, further calculations revealed that the orbit of comet Kiess had an eccentricity too high for an orbital period of 122 years, with the orbit calculated by Louis Lindsey in 1932 indicating an orbital period of 1,903 years.
- Venus 1.5° from Beehive in morning sky
- Sept 5 - Wargentin Pancake Visible - Bottom left of Moon
- Sept 7 - Full Moon & Lunar Eclipse - Can’t see it here but Central to West Au and centered on India.
- Sept 8 - Saturn, Neptune & Moon congregate in late evening sky
- Sept 11 - Carbon Star R Fornacis best tonight
- Sept 12 - Moon 1° North of Pleiades
- Sept 14 - Last quarter Moon
NGC 7552 well placed tonight
- Sept 15 - Lunar Curtis X Visible
Zodiacal light visible in Eastern morning sky next two weeks
- Sept 16 - Jupiter South of Moon
- Sept 17 - Follow Capella unaided eye into daylight this week.
- Sept 19 - Regulus, Venus & Moon form a tight triangle in early morning sky. Moon Occults Venus at 7am est.
- Sept 21 - Saturn at opposition
Partial Solar Eclipse
- Sept 22 - Fall Equinox and Gegenshein visible from dark sites, high in S at midnight
- Sept 23 - Neptune at Opposition
- Sept 25 - Comet 414P visible this morning Faint?
- Sept 26 - Carbon Star R Leporis best tonight
- Sept 29 - Last Quarter and Maginus Ray feature visible on Moon
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