(Pacific Daylight Time = UT-7)
Sept. 1
In 1859, Richard Carrington and Richard Hodgson independently observe the first solar flare in recorded history, observing a dramatic brightening in a projected image of the sun. This is during a huge magnetic storm on the sun, which leads to noticeable effects on Earth now known as the Carrington Event.
Sept. 6
First Star Trek episode (The Man Trap) aired, 1966
Sept. 7
11:09 Full Moon, Lunar eclipse visible everywhere except the Americas. 85% of the world’s population has a chance to see this eclipse.
Sept. 8
19:00 AstroCafé hybrid meeting, in person at the Fairfield Community Centre, or on-line on Zoom
Sept. 10
19:30 Room A104 in the Bob Wright Centre, University of Victoria RASC Meeting
David Payne – Galaxy formation
Followed by Coffee, Cookies and Conversation in the Astronomy Lounge on the 4th floor of the Elliot Building. Alex Schmid will open up the Centre RASC Library which is located in this lounge.
Sept. 13
The Russian Luna 2 probe impacts the surface of the moon in 1959, becoming the first humanmade object to make contact with another world.
Sept. 14
03:33 Last Quarter Moon
The first gravitational wave event is discovered by the two LIGO stations on opposite sides of the U.S. in 2015. It comes from the merger of two massive black holes.
Sept. 15
19:00 AstroCafé hybrid meeting, in person at the Fairfield Community Centre, or on-line on Zoom
Sept. 16
Luna 16 lands on Moon, 1970
Sept. 17
John Goodricke, born 1764. At age 18, he figured out that that Algol is an eclipsing binary.
Sept. 19
03:00 to 04:00 Moon conjunction with Venus
Sept. 21
12:54 New Moon, Partial Solar Eclipse visible in Antarctica and New Zealand
Sept. 22
11:19 Autumn Equinox
19:00 AstroCafé hybrid meeting, in person at the Fairfield Community Centre, or on-line on Zoom
Sept. 23
Johann Galle discovers Neptune, 1846
Sept. 26
Albert Einstein publishes paper on Special Relativity, 1905
Sept. 29
16:54 First Quarter Moon
19:00 AstroCafé hybrid meeting, in person at the Fairfield Community Centre, or on-line on Zoom
Sept. 30
Henry Draper takes the first-ever photograph of a nebula (the Orion Nebula M42), 1880
