Astronomical Agenda List - the Week of September 15 to September 21

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Astronomical week where the nights are already evident with the bright lights of the stars.

Everything is ready for this week to witness the astronomical events that prepares the universe, especially when the nights begin to jerk the stars

Below is the Astronomical Agenda:

Saturday, September 15
51 Pegasi is an average star. However, it was the first "normal" star for which astronomers discovered a planet companion. This just above the Great Square of Pegasus constellation. You need dark skies to see it.

Sunday September 16
Several bright stars are visible early evening today. The yellow-orange Arturo is in the west, with the reddish-orange Antares, the heart of the scorpion, low in the southwest. The stars of the Summer Triangle of Vega, Deneb and Altair are high in the zenith.

Monday September 17
Only one bright star makes its best show for autumn nights: Fomalhaut, the guiding light of the constellation Pisces Austrinus, the southern fish. Is low in the southeast early in the night, and heads south around midnight.

Tuesday, September 18
The bright band of the Milky Way is folded high across the sky tonight. Almost directly above the head, in the cross-shaped constellation of Cygnus the Swan, is divided into two bright strands of stars. They meet in the southern constellation Centaurus.

Wednesday, September 19
The planet Mars is slightly to the right of the thin crescent Moon early evening today. Mars looks like a moderately bright star.

Thursday, September 20
Antares, the heart of Scorpio, the scorpion blue, is to the left of the Moon at nightfall. Antares is classified as a red supergiant, meaning that is much larger than the Sun and its surface is rather cold.

Friday September 21
Today is the last day of summer in the northern celestial hemisphere, as well as constellations advertised as the Swan and the Eagle dominate the sky at nightfall.

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