Aster and the Black Moon

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August/September 1996
By Fred Schaaf 
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8 Grandparents Day.

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9 Admission Day in California; 36.4 inches of rain in 18 hours and 38.2 inches of rain in 24 hours fell at Thrall, Texas, in 1921.

10 Moon near Venus and Mars in east this morning (look around 5:45 A.M. EDT), a gorgeous gathering; Jupiter (bright in the south at nightfall) reaches the farthest south in the heavens in its 12-year orbit; sun enters constellation Leo.

11 Start of Diocletian year 1713 (see text of column for more on this).

12 NEW MOON, 7:09 P.M. EDT; Rosh Hashanah begins at sunset—start of Jewish year 5727 A.M. (see text of column for more on this); Defenders Day in Maryland.

13 Rosh Hashanah (began yesterday at sunset); Friday the 13th — it can occur one, two, or (least often) three times a year — this year, it happens twice, the second time is in December.

14 Start of the Byzantine year 7505; either today or October 14 is start of Seleucidae year 2308 (see text of column); Great Atlantic Hurricane of 1944 hit Cape Hatteras, N.C., raked past New Jersey and Long Island, and hit southeastern Massachusetts (390 people were lost at sea).

16 Sun enters the constellation Virgo (longest in the zodiac).

17 Citizenship Day; Mercury at inferior conjunction with the sun, and unviewable.

20 FIRST QUARTER MOON, 7:24 A.M. EDT; moon fairly near Jupiter tonight.

21 Mars right in (really, in front of) the Beehive star cluster (M44 in Cancer the Crab) — use binoculars or telescope.

22 AUTUMN EQUINOX (start of autumn in Earth's northern hemisphere, days and nights are of equal length all over the world, sun rises due east and sets due west), 2:00 P.M. EDT; Yom Kippur begins at sunset.

23 Yom Kippur (began yesterday at sunset).

24 Temperature hit -9°F at West Yellowstone, Montana, this date in 1926.

26 FULL MOON and harvest moon, 10:52 P.M. EDT—and TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE MOON with Saturn at opposition nearby (see text of column for details)!

27A small telescope will show a little star just south of Jupiter tonight — along with Jupiter's similarly bright Galilean moons, to either side of the planet.

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