2015 September Newsletter of Worthing Astronomers

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The Southern Astronomer No.84 – September 2015

SOUTHERN ASTRONOMER THE

MONTHLY MAGAZINE OF WORTHING ASTRONOMERS & WORTHING SKYWATCHERS

Astronomy Meetings The groups listed below begin their meetings at 19.30hrs BST Worthing Astronomers (WA) meet on the first Friday of the month, every two months (February, April, June, August, October and December) at Goring Methodist Church Hall, Bury Drive (off of Aldsworth Avenue) Worthing, BN12 4XB. Admission £3. Adur AS (AAS) meet at Southwick Christian Community Church, 1-5 Roman Crescent, Southwick BN42 4TY, first Monday of the month. Admission: £5 for guests, £3 for members. WA and AAS venues have off road parking facilities and grounds adjacent for setting up telescopes when conditions allow. More monthly details in the Quick View Diary (right). Worthing Astronomers is a free to join society with a membership of about 400 persons, all united with an interest in Astronomy and its associated subjects. With the aid of this newsletter, website, social media, regular star parties, workshops and public observing events we hope to encourage and share our interests in observing the sky with the public, our colleagues in our own group and with neighbouring societies.

This Issue Diary, listings, The Ones To Watch This Month1: Total Lunar Eclipse The Ones To Watch This Month 2 and 3 Report: Workshop Night - Telescope Clinic Planetary Cameras – The ZWO's Perseids 2015 Report Observing Notes for September

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QUICK VIEW ASTRO EVENTS DIARY September All times shown are Universal Time (UT = GMT = BST minus 1 hour) For WA and AAS details, see side bar on left

1 Sunrise 0515h : Sunset 1852h Neptune at opposition (03h) 4 Mercury at greatest eastern elongation; 27° (08h) Herstmonceux Science Festival Weekend start. 6 Herstmonceux Science Festival Weekend ends. 5 Occultation of Aldebaran by the Moon (05h) see page 3 Moon: Last Quarter (10h) 7 AAS: The Andromeda Galaxy, by Alan Drummond 12 Hants Astro - Starcamp 13 New Moon (06h) Hants Astro - Starcamp 14 Moon at apogee (11h) 19 WA: International Observe The Moon Night see page 3 20 WA: International Observe The Moon Night see page 3 21 Moon: First Quarter (09h) 23 Autumn Equinox (08h) 27 Sunrise 05.55h : Sunset 17.54h (6.55 a.m BST ; 06.54 p.m BST) 28 Full Moon – Total Eclipse (from UK) (03h) Moon at perigee (03h) 30 Sunrise 0600h : Sunset 1747h Mercury at inferior conjunction (15h)

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Lunar phases, September 2015

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