09/01/2022 – Ephemeris – Let’s look at the skies for the month of September

This is Bob Moler with Ephemeris for Thursday, September 1st. Today the Sun will be up for 13 hours and 14 minutes, setting at 8:19, and it will rise tomorrow at 7:06. The Moon, 2 days before first quarter, will set at 10:48 this evening.

Let’s look at the skies for the month of September. The Sun will be moving at its greatest speed in its retreat to the south. Daylight hours in the Interlochen/Traverse City area and will drop from 13 hours and 14 minutes today to 11 hours 45 minutes on the 30th. The altitude of the Sun above the southern horizon at local noon will be 54 degrees today, and will descend to 42 degrees on the 30th. The season of summer is getting short, so enjoy it while you can. Summer ends and autumn begins at 9:04 p.m. on September 22nd. The full Harvest Moon shows on our calendars as being on the 10th. However, the Harvest Moon will occur on the night of the 9th, and morning of the 10th, because the precise time it will be full is 5:59 am, before it sets that morning.

The astronomical event times given are for the Traverse City/Interlochen area of Michigan (EDT, UT – 4 hours). They may be different for your location.

Addendum

September Evening Star Chart

Star Chart for September 2022. Click on the image to enlarge it. Created using my LookingUp program.

The planets and stars are plotted for the 15th at 10 p.m. EDT in the evening and 6 a.m. for the morning chart. These are the chart times. Note that Traverse City is located approximately 45 minutes behind our time meridian, West 75° longitude. (An hour 45 minutes behind our daylight saving time meridian during EDT). To duplicate the star positions on a planisphere you may have to set it to 1 hour 45 minutes earlier than the current time.

September Morning Star Chart

Star Chart for September 2022 (6 am EDT, September 15, 2022). Click on the image to enlarge it. Created using my LookingUp program.

For a list of constellation names to go with the abbreviations, click here.

• Pointer stars at the front of the bowl of the Big Dipper point to Polaris, the North Star.
• Leaky dipper drips on Leo.
• Follow the arc of the handle of the Big Dipper to the star Arcturus.
• The Summer Triangle is in red.

Twilight Limits, Nautical and Astronomical

			EDT
	Morning	Twilight	Evening	Twilight	Dark	Night	Moon
Date	Astro.	Nautical	Nautical	Astro.	Start	End	Illum.
2022-09-01	5h26m	6h04m	21h29m	22h07m	22h48m	5h26m	0.33
2022-09-02	5h28m	6h06m	21h27m	22h05m	23h19m	5h28m	0.44
2022-09-03	5h29m	6h07m	21h25m	22h03m	23h59m	5h29m	0.55
2022-09-04	5h31m	6h08m	21h23m	22h00m	–	5h31m	0.67
2022-09-05	5h32m	6h10m	21h21m	21h58m	0h50m	5h32m	0.77
2022-09-06	5h34m	6h11m	21h19m	21h56m	1h56m	5h34m	0.86
2022-09-07	5h35m	6h12m	21h17m	21h54m	3h12m	5h35m	0.93
2022-09-08	5h37m	6h14m	21h15m	21h52m	4h33m	5h37m	0.98
2022-09-09	5h38m	6h15m	21h13m	21h49m	–	–	1
2022-09-10	5h40m	6h16m	21h11m	21h47m	–	–	0.99
2022-09-11	5h41m	6h18m	21h09m	21h45m	–	–	0.96
2022-09-12	5h43m	6h19m	21h07m	21h43m	–	–	0.91
2022-09-13	5h44m	6h20m	21h05m	21h41m	–	–	0.84
2022-09-14	5h46m	6h22m	21h03m	21h39m	21h39m	22h02m	0.75
2022-09-15	5h47m	6h23m	21h01m	21h36m	21h36m	22h30m	0.66
2022-09-16	5h49m	6h24m	20h59m	21h34m	21h34m	23h04m	0.57
2022-09-17	5h50m	6h26m	20h57m	21h32m	21h32m	23h45m	0.47
2022-09-18	5h51m	6h27m	20h55m	21h30m	21h30m	–	0.38
2022-09-19	5h53m	6h28m	20h53m	21h28m	21h28m	0h34m	0.29
2022-09-20	5h54m	6h29m	20h51m	21h26m	21h26m	1h31m	0.21
2022-09-21	5h56m	6h31m	20h49m	21h24m	21h24m	2h33m	0.13
2022-09-22	5h57m	6h32m	20h47m	21h22m	21h22m	3h39m	0.07
2022-09-23	5h58m	6h33m	20h45m	21h20m	21h20m	4h46m	0.03
2022-09-24	6h00m	6h34m	20h43m	21h18m	21h18m	5h54m	0.01
2022-09-25	6h01m	6h36m	20h41m	21h16m	21h16m	6h01m	0
2022-09-26	6h02m	6h37m	20h39m	21h14m	21h14m	6h02m	0.02
2022-09-27	6h04m	6h38m	20h37m	21h12m	21h12m	6h04m	0.06
2022-09-28	6h05m	6h39m	20h35m	21h10m	21h10m	6h05m	0.12
2022-09-29	6h06m	6h41m	20h33m	21h08m	21h21m	6h06m	0.2
2022-09-30	6h08m	6h42m	20h31m	21h06m	21h57m	6h08m	0.3

Twilight calendar was generated using Cartes du Ciel (Sky Charts).

See my blog post: Twilight Zone for the definitions of the different periods of twilight here: https://bobmoler.wordpress.com/2018/09/27/.

NASA Calendar of Planetary Events

Sep  1  Th            Venus: 13.6° W
     1  Th   5:12 pm  Moon Descending Node
     3  Sa  10:56 am  Moon-Antares: 2.6° S
     3  Sa   2:08 pm  First Quarter
     5  Mo   9:56 am  Moon South Dec.: 27.2° S
     6  Tu   5:30 pm  Mars-Aldebaran: 4.3° N
     7  We   2:17 pm  Moon Perigee: 364,500 km
     8  Th   6:31 am  Moon-Saturn: 3.9° N
    10  Sa   5:59 am  Full Harvest Moon
    11  Su  11:11 am  Moon-Jupiter: 1.9° N
    14  We  10:49 am  Moon Ascending Node
    15  Th   2:50 pm  Moon-Pleiades: 3.1° N
    16  Fr   5:03 pm  Neptune Opposition
    16  Fr   9:41 pm  Moon-Mars: 4° S
    17  Sa   5:52 pm  Last Quarter
    18  Su   6:10 pm  Moon North Dec.: 27.3° N
    19  Mo  10:44 am  Moon Apogee: 404,600 km
    20  Tu   3:40 am  Moon-Pollux: 2.1° N
    22  Th   9:04 pm  Autumnal Equinox
    23  Fr   2:47 am  Mercury Inferior Conjunction
    25  Su   5:54 pm  New Moon
    26  Mo   2:03 pm  Jupiter Opposition
    28  We   7:43 pm  Moon Descending Node
    30  Fr   4:20 pm  Moon-Antares: 2.4° S
Oct  1  Sa            Venus: 5.8° W

All event times are given for UTC-4 hr: Eastern Daylight Saving Time.

Sky Events Calendar by Fred Espenak and Sumit Dutta (NASA’s GSFC),
http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SKYCAL/SKYCAL.html.

If you go to the above site, you can print out a list like the above for the entire year or calendar pages for your time zone.

Sun and Moon Rising and Setting Events

LU                  Ephemeris of Sky Events for Interlochen/TC
September, 2022    Local time zone: EDT
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
| DATE |  SUN     SUN  DAYLIGHT|   TWILIGHT*    |MOON  RISE OR    ILLUM |
|      |  RISE    SET    HOURS |  END    START  |PHASE SET** TIME FRACTN|
+=======================================================================+
|Thu  1| 07:05a  08:19p  13:14 | 09:25p  05:58a |      Set  10:48p   31%|
|Fri  2| 07:06a  08:17p  13:11 | 09:23p  06:00a |      Set  11:18p   42%|
|Sat  3| 07:07a  08:15p  13:08 | 09:21p  06:01a |F Qtr Set  11:58p   53%|
+------+-----------------------+----------------+-----------------------+
|Sun  4| 07:08a  08:13p  13:05 | 09:19p  06:02a |      Set  12:50a   64%|
|Mon  5| 07:09a  08:12p  13:02 | 09:17p  06:04a |      Set  01:55a   75%|
|Tue  6| 07:11a  08:10p  12:59 | 09:15p  06:05a |      Set  03:11a   84%|
|Wed  7| 07:12a  08:08p  12:56 | 09:13p  06:07a |      Set  04:33a   92%|
|Thu  8| 07:13a  08:06p  12:53 | 09:11p  06:08a |      Set  05:54a   97%|
|Fri  9| 07:14a  08:04p  12:49 | 09:09p  06:09a |      Set  07:14a  100%|
|Sat 10| 07:15a  08:02p  12:46 | 09:07p  06:11a |Full  Rise 08:35p   99%|
+------+-----------------------+----------------+-----------------------+
|Sun 11| 07:17a  08:00p  12:43 | 09:05p  06:12a |      Rise 08:56p   97%|
|Mon 12| 07:18a  07:59p  12:40 | 09:03p  06:13a |      Rise 09:16p   92%|
|Tue 13| 07:19a  07:57p  12:37 | 09:01p  06:14a |      Rise 09:38p   85%|
|Wed 14| 07:20a  07:55p  12:34 | 08:59p  06:16a |      Rise 10:02p   77%|
|Thu 15| 07:21a  07:53p  12:31 | 08:57p  06:17a |      Rise 10:30p   68%|
|Fri 16| 07:22a  07:51p  12:28 | 08:55p  06:18a |      Rise 11:03p   59%|
|Sat 17| 07:24a  07:49p  12:25 | 08:53p  06:20a |L Qtr Rise 11:44p   49%|
+------+-----------------------+----------------+-----------------------+
|Sun 18| 07:25a  07:47p  12:22 | 08:51p  06:21a |      Rise 12:33a   40%|
|Mon 19| 07:26a  07:45p  12:19 | 08:49p  06:22a |      Rise 01:30a   31%|
|Tue 20| 07:27a  07:43p  12:16 | 08:47p  06:24a |      Rise 02:33a   22%|
|Wed 21| 07:28a  07:41p  12:13 | 08:45p  06:25a |      Rise 03:38a   15%|
|Thu 22| 07:29a  07:40p  12:10 | 08:43p  06:26a |      Rise 04:46a    9%|
|Fri 23| 07:31a  07:38p  12:07 | 08:41p  06:27a |      Rise 05:54a    4%|
|Sat 24| 07:32a  07:36p  12:03 | 08:39p  06:29a |      Rise 07:02a    1%|
+------+-----------------------+----------------+-----------------------+
|Sun 25| 07:33a  07:34p  12:00 | 08:37p  06:30a |New   Set  07:48p    0%|
|Mon 26| 07:34a  07:32p  11:57 | 08:35p  06:31a |      Set  08:07p    1%|
|Tue 27| 07:35a  07:30p  11:54 | 08:33p  06:32a |      Set  08:28p    5%|
|Wed 28| 07:37a  07:28p  11:51 | 08:31p  06:34a |      Set  08:51p   11%|
|Thu 29| 07:38a  07:26p  11:48 | 08:29p  06:35a |      Set  09:20p   18%|
|Fri 30| 07:39a  07:25p  11:45 | 08:27p  06:36a |      Set  09:57p   28%|
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
* Nautical Twilight
** Moonrise or moonset, whichever occurs between sunrise and sunset

Generated using my LookingUp for DOS program.