September comes with plenty of night-sky wonders and earthly pleasures 🥮 #shorts
– Comet Nishimura: flying by Earth on its way to the Sun with its closest approach to us on 12 September.
– New Moon (15 September 2023): help Andreas Mogensen on his Earthshine project taking a #NewMoonSnap.
– Equinox (23 September 2023 at 8:49 CEST): The 6-month long night starts on the North Pole and the 6-month long day stars on the South Pole.
– Full Moon (29 September 2023): celebrate the Mid-autumn festival eating delicious mooncakes.
📹 ESA – European Space Agency
#ESA
#September
#Astronomy
That’s gonna be an awesome month!
I am SO anticipating all of these
LOVE ESA FROM QAZAQSTAN
Are "cosmic events" ever visible from the Southern Hemisphere?
Lovely!
It’s also the start of what NASA is calling Asteroid Autumn with the return of Osiris REX tomarrow and then the launch of Psyche