Mars Viewing!!!

If you get up about an hour and a half before sunrise tomorrow morning (October 1st) you should be able to see Mars!

The Sky Tonight

Tonight, you can see Altair, the brightest star in the constellation Aquila.

As you can see, it is a very bright and beautiful star.

Source: http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/ataglance

Autumn Equinox!!!!

Today is autumn equinox (first day of fall), so the sun was directly overhead about 20 minutes ago (3:45pm). The sun being straight overhead is called "zenith."

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Interesting BuzzFeed Article About Harvest Moons

http://www.buzzfeed.com/hunterschwarz/this-is-why-the-moon-was-so-big-last-night