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elleng

(130,876 posts)
Sun Sep 12, 2021, 08:09 PM Sep 2021

Antares, confirmed location, south.





'We’re less than two weeks away from the equinox. Summer is nearly gone on our northern part of the globe. And the red star Antares – a summer star for the Northern Hemisphere – is shifting noticeably westward at each new sunset. Soon, it’ll be gone behind the sun. You can still see this star on September 12, 2021, though. It’ll be near a fat waxing crescent moon. Antares is the brightest star to light up the constellation Scorpius the Scorpion.

Our sky chart at top depicts the view as seen from mid-northern North American latitudes. But, from most parts of the globe, the moon will be in the neighborhood of Antares in your sky, too, around September 12.

Antares, the far-southern star
Meanwhile, as seen from near and south of the Antarctic Circle, Antares always stays above the horizon. It’s circumpolar for far-southern latitudes. This star, like the midnight sun of summer, stays above the horizon in this part of the world all year round, instead of just seasonally.

https://earthsky.org/.../moon-and-antares-on-september-12/?
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