Sagittarius
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Sep 18, 2026
James Donald WaltersGUEST
He said that the galaxy that we live in has a center.
James Donald WaltersGUEST
Now we know that it's in the constellation Sagittarius, that the Sun is moving toward that, but in an ellipse, which means it's not making a beeline for it.
James Donald WaltersGUEST
Actually, we're moving toward the the constellation Hercules, which is sort of in that general area, which would be quite justifiable from a standpoint of its being an elliptical path.
James Donald WaltersGUEST
The existence of a dual to our system has not yet been discovered, but so many things he said that were proved true, I'm willing to wait to see how much will be still proved true.
ChrisHOST
Yeah.
ChrisHOST
Um, so summary of last month's tour, we talked about, uh, Messier 6 and 7, which of course are those open clusters right at the horizon this time of year between Scorpius and Sagittarius.
ChrisHOST
Uh, we talked about Messier 8, which is the Lagoon Nebula, um, and also the open cluster that is, that is associated with it.
ChrisHOST
And then the, the nearby, uh, M20, uh, M21, which is the, uh, Trifid and associated nebulae and cluster there.
ChrisHOST
They congregate around the Milky Way, but they're, they're sort of outside of that, uh, of that main band typically.
ChrisHOST
That's why we see them over in like Ophiuchus, which is just off that main bulge.
ChrisHOST
Um, and you see them sort of, uh, just outside of Sagittarius, but in the, typically in the other direction, uh, just off that bulge.
ChrisHOST
And maybe it's just that they're, they're being blocked by, uh, the central, uh, dust lanes and other material that's in the Milky Way.
AveryHOST
Over the next week, the moon climbs back into the evening and walks past two landmarks worth knowing.
AveryHOST
Antares, the red heart of Scorpius, and the teapot of Sagittarius.
AveryHOST
Use the Moon to find them between now and the 20th.
AveryHOST
And from Sydney, the center of the Milky Way is still riding high overhead after dark.
Mark BreenHOST
Welcome to Night Sky for Monday, September 14th.
Mark BreenHOST
Last week's feature constellation, Sagittarius the Archer, continues its slide low above the southern horizon this week.
Mark BreenHOST
You'll find its identifiable teapot-shaped pattern due south in the last moments of twilight near 845, while the scorpion also crawls along the horizon well to its right toward the southwest.
Mark BreenHOST
Not only are they keynote constellations in the summer, their names are familiar to many who don't spend a lot of time stargazing.
DrewHOST
Antares is a red supergiant roughly 550 light years away with a diameter hundreds of times greater than our sun.
DrewHOST
From Antares, follow the moon eastward towards Sagittarius and one of the easiest star patterns to recognize in the late summer sky, the teapot.
DrewHOST
The handle, lid, and triangular spout are all formed by stars within Sagittarius.
DrewHOST
Under a dark sky, the hazy band of the Milky Way appears to rise from the teapot's spout like steam.
DrewHOST
When you look into that especially bright and crowded portion of the Milky Way, you're looking toward the center of our galaxy, about 26,000 light-years away.
DrewHOST
Reddish Mars is there as well, considerably fainter than Jupiter, but gradually becoming easier to see as Earth begins catching up to it.
DrewHOST
This isn't a particularly active week for major meteor showers, and there are no bright naked-eye comets demanding our attention.
DrewHOST
But between Venus at peak brightness, a lunar walk past Antares and Sagittarius... and a worldwide evening devoted to observing the moon, there's still plenty waiting overhead.
Deadrick Baker IIHOST
The 100 system sovereigns come periodically to the Edencha conclaves.
Deadrick Baker IIHOST
So think of Edencha as, I don't know, say Sagittarius or something.
Deadrick Baker IIHOST
So the 100 system sovereigns come periodically to meet in the Edencha conclaves, which deliberate on the welfare of the entire constellation.
Deadrick Baker IIHOST
After the Satania Rebellion, the Lucifer rebellion, the arch rebels of Jerusalem, the Orion negative entities, the arch rebels of Jerusalem, Orion.
Sky CarambaHOST
On Friday, we have a first quarter Moon, and the Moon's as far south as it goes this month, 28.1 degrees.
Sky CarambaHOST
The lunar disk is between Scorpius and Sagittarius that night.
Sky CarambaHOST
And on Saturday, when the Moon's in the Archer constellation, it's also at apogee 404,200 kilometers away.
Sky CarambaHOST
So the Moon spends all of this week getting farther away until Saturday, when it starts getting closer again.
AveryHOST
And with no moon in the sky, the core of the Milky Way is still high after dark down here.
AveryHOST
Sagittarius and Scorpius overhead in the early evening, the best naked eye view in the sky, and ours for a few more weeks.
AnnaHOST
There's one more southern thing, and it's subtle.
AveryHOST
The zodiacal light, sunlight scattered off dust in the plane of the solar system, looking like a faint pyramid leaning up from the horizon.
AveryHOST
And with no moon in the sky, the core of the Milky Way is still high after dark down here.
AveryHOST
Sagittarius and Scorpius overhead in the early evening, the best naked eye view in the sky, and ours for a few more weeks.
AnnaHOST
There's one more southern thing, and it's subtle.
AveryHOST
The zodiacal light, sunlight scattered off dust in the plane of the solar system, looking like a faint pyramid leaning up from the horizon.
AnnaHOST
From Sydney and similar latitudes, the core of the Milky Way is still high after dark.
AnnaHOST
Sagittarius and Scorpius up towards the zenith in the early evening, and on a moonless night away from town, it is genuinely startling.
AnnaHOST
This is the last really good fortnight of it for the year.
AnnaHOST
Binoculars, no plan, half an hour.
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