Ephemeris: 09/10/2026 – Finding Pegasus the winged horse of Greek myth

September 10, 2026 Comments off

This is Ephemeris for Thursday, September 10th. Today the Sun will be up for 12 hours and 46 minutes, setting at 8:02, and it will rise tomorrow at 7:17. The Moon is new today, and won’t be visible.

Saturn is low in the eastern sky at 10 PM. This is the brightest “star” in that direction. Above Saturn is the Great Square of Pegasus, a large, nearly perfect square of stars, standing on one corner. This is the front part of the body of Pegasus the flying horse. He’s climbing to the upper right, following the rotation of the sky. But it’s flying upside down, having its neck and head extend from the rightmost star of the square. From the top star are his forelegs extend. From the leftmost star extend two curved lines of stars which may look like hind legs, but belong to another constellation, Andromeda the Princess. Pegasus’ wings are not seen in the stars. Pegasus is part of a Greek myth, which has been made into two movies, both titled Clash of the Titans. But no actual Titans were used in the movies. All gods and godesses in the movie were their decendents.

The astronomical event times given in this blog are for the Traverse City/Interlochen area of Michigan (Lat 44.7° N, Long 85.7° W; EDT, UT – 4 hours) unless stated otherwise. Times will be different for other locations.

Addendum

Pegasus and Andromeda are seen above Saturn, the brightest "star" low in the east at 10 PM.
Pegasus and Andromeda are seen above Saturn, the brightest “star” low in the east at 10 PM. The star seemingly shared by both Pegasus and Andromeda is Alpheratz belongs to the lady. The unmarked W shaped group of stars to the upper left belong to Cassiopeia, Andromeda’s mother. It’s a long story. Created using Stellarium, LibreOffice Draw and GIMP.

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Ephemeris: 09/09/2026 – Taking our weekly look at the whereabouts of the naked-eye planets

September 9, 2026 Comments off

This is Ephemeris for Wednesday, September 9th. Today the Sun will be up for 12 hours and 49 minutes, setting at 8:04, and it will rise tomorrow at 7:15. The Moon, 1 day before new, will rise at 6:35 tomorrow morning.

Let’s take our weekly look at the whereabouts of the naked-eye planets. By 8:20 tonight,nearly a half-hour after sunset, Venus will be spotted very low in the west southwestern sky. Though at a 42º angle from the sun, it’ll only be 7º above the horizon then. A telescope will show a small crescent disk of the planet. It is now rapidly approaching earth in its orbit, at 45.9 million miles (73.9 mil km) away from us. Venus is becoming an ever decreasing crescent as its apparent diameter grows in telescopes. Saturn will rise at 9:08 PM in the east. At 6 AM, Mars and Jupiter will be in the east. Jupiter is brightest and lowest while Mars has the competition of brighter stars in Gemini.

The astronomical event times given in this blog are for the Traverse City/Interlochen area of Michigan (Lat 44.7° N, Long 85.7° W; EDT, UT – 4 hours) unless stated otherwise. Times will be different for other locations.

Addendum

Venus appears low in the west southwestern sky at 8:20 PM tonight, September 9, 2026. If Venus was the same angle from the sun near the spring equinox, it would be much higher in the sky. On top of that, note that Venus is below the ecliptic, the plane of our orbit of the sun. Venus’ orbit is tilted by about 3.4 degrees to the earth’s orbit. And by moving toward the earth that difference is exaggerated, making Venus even lower in our western sky. Created using Stellarium with annotations.
Satern appers in the east by 10 PM directly under the Great Square of Pegasus, the winged horse of Greek myth.
Satern appers in the east by 10 PM directly under the Great Square of Pegasus, the winged horse of Greek myth. Created using Stellarium.
Mars and Jupiter appear with the stars of winter, now adorning the predawn sky at 6 AM.
Mars and Jupiter appear with the stars of winter, now adorning the predawn sky at 6 AM. Created using Stellarium.
Telescopic views of the naked-eye planets as seen in a small telescope.
Telescopic views of the naked-eye planets as seen in a small telescope: Venus’ apparent diameter at 8:20 PM tonight will be 34.3″, and be 32.5% illuminated. At 10 PM, Saturn will be 19.5″ in diameter, and its rings extend to 45.4″. At 6 AM, Jupiter will be 32.2″ in diameter. Mars, not shown, will appear 5.2″ in diameter. The (”) symbol means seconds of arc, or 1/3600th of a degree. Created using Cartes du Ciel (Sky Charts), LibreOffice Draw and GIMP.
The naked-eye planets at sunset and sunrise on a single night.
The naked-eye planets at sunset and sunrise on a single night, starting with sunset on the right on September 9, 2026. The night ends on the left with sunrise on the 10th. Click or tap on the image to enlarge it. Created using my LookingUp app and GIMP.
The naked-eye planets, from Mercury to Saturn, in a low angle perspective view of the solar system.
The naked-eye planets, from Mercury to Saturn, in a low angle perspective view of the solar system from above and a bit beyond Saturn’s orbit for today, September 2, 2026. Created using my LookingUp app, text and arrows created using LibreOffice Draw and produced a unified image using GIMP.

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Ephemeris: 09/08/2026 – Where is the Sun heading to?

September 8, 2026 Comments off

This is Ephemeris for Tuesday, September 8th. Today the Sun will be up for 12 hours and 52 minutes, setting at 8:06, and it will rise tomorrow at 7:14. The Moon, 2 days before new, will rise at 5:18 tomorrow morning.

We know that the Earth orbits the sun, but where is the sun going? The sun orbits the center of the Milky Way moving something like 137 miles (220 kilometers) per second in the direction of Cygnus the Swan. It takes about 200 to 250 million years to orbit the center of the galaxy. However, the sun has a motion with respect to the general flow of stars in our neighborhood orbiting the center of the galaxy. Where the sun is heading is it called the solar apex. That point is it just a little bit south of the star Vega which is high in the south in the evening. Vega is the brightest star of this Summer Triangle, which includes Altair to the southeast and Deneb to the east. The sun’s motioned towards the apex that is about 8 miles (13 kilometers) per second.

The astronomical event times given in this blog are for the Traverse City/Interlochen area of Michigan (Lat 44.7° N, Long 85.7° W; EDT, UT – 4 hours) unless stated otherwise. Times will be different for other locations.

Addendum

The Solar Apex, where the sun is headed.
The Solar Apex, where the sun is headed compared to the cicular orbit around the center of the galaxy. The general circular orbit would point the sun at a point just north of Deneb in our sky at 10 PM on September 8th. The deviation of the apex point shows the sun has a slightly elliptical orbit that bobs above and below the galactic plane. Star field from Stellarium, apex point position from Wikipedia.

Categories: Concepts, Ephemeris Program, Milky Way, Sun

Ephemeris: 09/07/2026 – Unsung heros of Apollo

September 7, 2026 2 comments

This is Ephemeris for Labor Day, Monday, September 7th. Today the Sun will be up for 12 hours and 55 minutes, setting at 8:08, and it will rise tomorrow at 7:13. The Moon, half way from last quarter to new, will rise at 3:58 tomorrow morning.

Today is the day we salute all workers. I’d like to remember hundreds of thousands of unsung workers in the 1960s who built and launched machines that went to places no one had gone before namely, space and eventually to the moon. Back then as in now, building rockets and spacecraft is not an assembly line operation, exactly. These are not exact copies of each other for the most part, there was always changes and upgrades with every single one. No two are exactly the same. Space hardware are always in development and inprovements eek out every last bit of performance possible. It takes skill and dedication to build something with the specs always changing, and then getting it right every time.

The astronomical event times given in this blog are for the Traverse City/Interlochen area of Michigan (Lat 44.7° N, Long 85.7° W; EDT, UT – 4 hours) unless stated otherwise. Times will be different for other locations.

Addendum

I thought it appropriate to represent the hundreds of thounds of those who worked, unsung, to allow 12 Americans to set foot on the Moon, by the bulk of the rocket that sent them to them. For the gigantic bulk of the rocket only the tiny cone on top will return.
I thought it appropriate to represent the hundreds of thounds of those who worked, unsung, to allow 12 Americans to set foot on the Moon, by the bulk of the rocket that sent them to them. For the gigantic bulk of the rocket only the tiny cone on top will return.
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Ephemeris: 09/04/2026 – GTAS meeting: Meteorites and Quasicrystals

September 4, 2026 Comments off

This is Ephemeris for Friday, September 4th. Today the Sun will be up for 13 hours and 5 minutes, setting at 8:13, and it will rise tomorrow at 7:10. The Moon, at last quarter today, will rise at 12:11 tomorrow morning.

The Grand Traverse Astronomical Society (GTAS) will host its September meeting tonight at 8 PM at Northwestern Michigan College’s Joseph H Rogers Observatory. Joe Brooks our Meteorite Man will present a talk about meteorites and quasicrystals and have meteorites to display. Without giving too much away, NASA has been growing and studying quasicrystals. They have interesting properties, which among other things hold promise in sensors and high efficiency solar cells. Afterward, about 9 PM if it’s clear, there will be viewing of the heavens through the observatory’s telescopes. The observatory is located on Birmley Rd. The meeting is also on Zoom, see gtastro.org for more information.

The astronomical event times given in this blog are for the Traverse City/Interlochen area of Michigan (Lat 44.7° N, Long 85.7° W; EDT, UT – 4 hours) unless stated otherwise. Times will be different for other locations.

Addendum

Joe Brooks talking to the public with part of his meteorite collection at the GTAS Transit of Venus event at the Traverse City, MI Open Space June 5, 2012.
Joe Brooks talking to the public with part of his meteorite collection at the GTAS Transit of Venus event at the Traverse City, MI Open Space June 5, 2012. Photo by the author.
Categories: Ephemeris Program, GTAS Outreach Event, Meteorites

Ephemeris: 09/03/2026 – Finding the North American Nebula

September 3, 2026 Comments off

This is Ephemeris for Thursday, September 3rd. Today the Sun will be up for 13 hours and 8 minutes, setting at 8:15, and it will rise tomorrow at 7:08. The Moon, 1 day before last quarter, will rise at 11:15 this evening.

Most of what we see in the Milky Way are just masses of stars, but there are bright clouds of gas, or to name them properly: emission nebulae. These bright clouds are areas of star formation. It is the ultraviolet light from young massive stars that light up the clouds they were formed from. A bright one, easily visible in binoculars, is just about overhead at 10 p.m. Called the North American Nebula, a glow, that in photographs is shaped much like our continent, is just east of the star Deneb which is practically overhead in the evening. Deneb is the northernmost star of the Summer Triangle, and brightest star in Cygnus the swan or Northern Cross. There are many other nebulae in the Milky Way, visible in binoculars and small telescopes. Many enjoyable hours can be spent sweeping the Milky Way for nebulae and star clusters.

The astronomical event times given in this blog are for the Traverse City/Interlochen area of Michigan (Lat 44.7° N, Long 85.7° W; EDT, UT – 4 hours) unless stated otherwise. Times will be different for other locations.

Addendum

The North American Nebula finder. Move slider to see the stars and Milky Way as they are seen in the sky and as annotated. Created using Stellarium.
Deneb & North American Nebula
One of my old photographs of Deneb and the North American Nebula digitized from a slide.
The North American Nebula
The North American (center left) and Pelican (right) nebulae is seen here in an astrophotograph by Daniel Dall’Olmo. The red color is due to the element hydrogen. Our eyes can’t perceive red very well with our night vision. However, hydrogen also emits in the green, which along with doubly ionized oxygen also emitting green light, makes it bright enough to be discerned visually. Click or tap on the image to enlarge it.

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Ephemeris: 09/02/2026 – Taking our weekly look at the whereabouts of the naked-eye planets

September 2, 2026 Comments off

This is Ephemeris for Wednesday, September 2nd. Today the Sun will be up for 13 hours and 11 minutes, setting at 8:17, and it will rise tomorrow at 7:07. The Moon, 2 days before last quarter, will rise at 10:33 this evening.

Let’s take our weekly look at the whereabouts of the naked-eye planets. By 8:45 PM tonight, a nearly a half-hour after sunset, Venus will be spotted low in the west southwestern sky. Though at a 44º angle from the sun, it’ll only be 6º above the horizon then. A telescope will show a small crescent disk of the planet. It is now rapidly approaching earth in its orbit, at 50.8 million miles (81.8 mil km) away from us. Venus is becoming an ever decreasing crescent as its apparent diameter grows in telescopes. At 6 AM, Saturn will be alone in the southwest, while Mars and Jupiter will be in the east. Jupiter is brightest and lowest while Mars has the competition of brighter stars in Gemini.

The astronomical event times given in this blog are for the Traverse City/Interlochen area of Michigan (Lat 44.7° N, Long 85.7° W; EDT, UT – 4 hours) unless stated otherwise. Times will be different for other locations.

Addendum

Venus appears low in the west southwestern sky at 8:45 PM tonight
Venus appears low in the west southwestern sky at 8:45 PM tonight, September 2, 2026. Created using Stellarium.
Saturn, Mars, Jupiter and the Moon will be seen at 6:00 AM tomorrow morning September 3, 2026.
Saturn, Mars, Jupiter and the Moon will be seen at 6:00 AM tomorrow morning September 3, 2026. Mars, in Gemini, is entering the part of the sky with bright stars, the winter sky. So it won’t stand out until it gets much closer to the Earth. Jupiter is brighter than all the rest. Created using Stellarium.
Moon a day before last quarter at 6 AM tomorrow morning, September 3, 2026. A view visible in small telescopes showing an image with and without selected features labeled. Created using Stellarium, LibreOffice Draw, and GIMP.
Telescopic Venus at 8:45 PM tonight, September 2, 2026, and Saturn and Jupiter at 6:00 AM.
Telescopic Venus at 8:45 PM tonight, September 2, 2026, and Saturn and Jupiter at 6:00 AM on the 3rd (north up), as they would be seen in a small telescope with the same magnification. Venus’ apparent diameter will be 31.0″, and be 37.5% illuminated. Saturn will be 19.4″ in diameter, and its rings extend to 45.1″, and are tilted 8.6º to our view. Jupiter will be 31.9″ in diameter. Mars, not shown, will appear 5.1″ in diameter. The (”) symbol means seconds of arc, or 1/3600th of a degree. Created using Cartes du Ciel (Sky Charts), LibreOffice Draw and GIMP.
Telescopic Venus at 8:45 PM tonight, September 2, 2026, and Saturn and Jupiter at 6:00 AM.
The naked-eye planets at sunset and sunrise on a single night, starting with sunset on the right on September 2, 2026. The night ends on the left with sunrise on the 3rd. Click or tap on the image to enlarge it. Created using my LookingUp app and GIMP.
The naked-eye planets, from Mercury to Saturn, in a low angle perspective view of the solar system from above and a bit beyond Saturn’s orbit for today, September 2, 2026.
The naked-eye planets, from Mercury to Saturn, in a low angle perspective view of the solar system from above and a bit beyond Saturn’s orbit for today, September 2, 2026. Created using my LookingUp app, text and arrows created using LibreOffice Draw and produced a unified image using GIMP.
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Ephemeris: 09/01/2026 – Previewing September skies

September 1, 2026 Comments off

This is Bob Moler with Ephemeris for Tuesday, September 1st. Today the Sun will be up for 13 hours and 14 minutes, setting at 8:19, and it will rise tomorrow at 7:06. The Moon, 3 days before last quarter, will rise at 10:00 this evening.

Let’s look at the skies for the month of September, a transition month between summer and autumn. The Sun will be moving at its greatest speed in its retreat to the south. Daylight hours in the Interlochen/Traverse City area and will drop from 13 hours and 14 minutes today to 11 hours 45 minutes on the 30th. The altitude of the Sun above the southern horizon at local noon will be 54 degrees today, and will descend to 42 degrees on the 30th. The season of summer is getting short, so enjoy it while you can. Summer ends and autumn begins at 8:06 p.m. with the autumnal equinox on September 22nd. The Harvest Moon will occur on the 26th, being the closest full moon to the autumnal equinox.

The astronomical event times given in this blog are for the Traverse City/Interlochen area of Michigan (Lat 44.7° N, Long 85.7° W; EDT, UT – 4 hours) unless stated otherwise. Times will be different for other locations.

Addendum

September Evening Star Chart

Star Chart for September 2026 (10 PM EDT, September 15).
Star Chart for September 2026 (10 PM EDT, September 15). Created using my LookingUp program.

The planets and stars are plotted for the 15th at 10 p.m. EDT in the evening and 6 a.m. for the morning chart. These are the chart times. Note that Traverse City is located approximately 45 minutes behind our time meridian, West 75° longitude. (An hour 45 minutes behind our daylight saving time meridian during EDT). To duplicate the star positions on a planisphere you may have to set it to 1 hour 45 minutes earlier than the current time.

September Morning Star Chart

Star Chart for September 2025 (6 am EDT, September 16)
Star Chart for September 2025 (6 am EDT, September 16). Click on the image to enlarge it. Created using my LookingUp program.

Twilight Limits, Nautical and Astronomical

      EDT        
  Morning Twilight Evening Twilight Dark Night Moon
Date Astro. Nautical Nautical Astro. Start End Illum.
2026-09-01 5h22m 6h00m 21h29m 22h07m – – 73%
2026-09-02 5h24m 6h02m 21h27m 22h05m 22h05m 22h33m 63%
2026-09-03 5h25m 6h03m 21h25m 22h03m 22h03m 23h16m 52%
2026-09-04 5h27m 6h05m 21h23m 22h00m 22h00m – 40%
2026-09-05 5h28m 6h06m 21h21m 21h58m 21h58m 0h11m 29%
2026-09-06 5h30m 6h07m 21h19m 21h56m 21h56m 1h20m 19%
2026-09-07 5h32m 6h09m 21h17m 21h54m 21h54m 2h37m 11%
2026-09-08 5h33m 6h10m 21h15m 21h51m 21h51m 3h58m 5%
2026-09-09 5h35m 6h11m 21h13m 21h49m 21h49m 5h18m 1%
2026-09-10 5h36m 6h13m 21h11m 21h47m 21h47m 5h36m 0%
2026-09-11 5h38m 6h14m 21h09m 21h45m 21h45m 5h38m 1%
2026-09-12 5h39m 6h15m 21h07m 21h43m 21h43m 5h39m 5%
2026-09-13 5h40m 6h17m 21h05m 21h41m 21h41m 5h40m 11%
2026-09-14 5h42m 6h18m 21h03m 21h38m 21h38m 5h42m 18%
2026-09-15 5h43m 6h19m 21h01m 21h36m 21h36m 5h43m 26%
2026-09-16 5h45m 6h20m 20h59m 21h34m 22h08m 5h45m 35%
2026-09-17 5h46m 6h22m 20h57m 21h32m 22h50m 5h46m 44%
2026-09-18 5h48m 6h23m 20h55m 21h30m 23h40m 5h48m 53%
2026-09-19 5h49m 6h24m 20h53m 21h28m – 5h49m 63%
2026-09-20 5h50m 6h25m 20h51m 21h26m 0h39m 5h50m 72%
2026-09-21 5h52m 6h27m 20h49m 21h24m 1h43m 5h52m 80%
2026-09-22 5h53m 6h28m 20h47m 21h22m 2h50m 5h53m 87%
2026-09-23 5h54m 6h29m 20h45m 21h20m 3h59m 5h54m 93%
2026-09-24 5h56m 6h31m 20h43m 21h18m 5h08m 5h56m 97%
2026-09-25 5h57m 6h32m 20h41m 21h16m – – 100%
2026-09-26 5h58m 6h33m 20h39m 21h13m – – 100%
2026-09-27 6h00m 6h34m 20h37m 21h11m – – 97%
2026-09-28 6h01m 6h35m 20h35m 21h09m – – 92%
2026-09-29 6h02m 6h37m 20h33m 21h08m – – 85%
2026-09-30 6h04m 6h38m 20h31m 21h06m 21h06m 21h15m 76%

Twilight calendar was generated using Cartes du Ciel (Sky Charts).

See my blog post: Twilight Zone for the definitions of the different periods of twilight here: https://bobmoler.wordpress.com/2018/09/27/.

NASA Calendar of Planetary Events

Date         Time     Event
Sep  1  Tu            Venus: 44.6° E
     1  Tu   9:27 AM  Venus-Spica: 1.4° S
     3  Th   8:03 AM  Moon-Pleiades: 1.2° S
     4  Fr   3:51 AM  Last Quarter
     5  Sa   2:12 AM  Moon North Dec.: 28.1° N
     6  Su   2:24 PM  Moon-Mars: 3° S
     6  Su   4:26 PM  Moon Perigee: 368300 km
     8  Tu  12:43 AM  Moon-Beehive: 0.5° S
     8  Tu   2:13 PM  Moon-Jupiter: 0.8° S
     9  We   3:17 PM  Moon Descending Node
    10  Th  11:27 PM  New Moon
    13  Su   4:53 PM  Moon-Spica: 2.6° N
    14  Mo   7:10 AM  Moon-Venus: 0.6° S
    16  We   9:42 PM  Mars-Pollux: 5.9° S
    17  Th   8:18 AM  Moon-Antares: 0.6° N
    18  Fr   2:54 PM  Moon South Dec.: 28.1° S
    18  Fr   4:44 PM  First Quarter
    18  Fr  11:00 PM  Moon Apogee: 404200 km
    22  Tu   8:06 PM  Autumnal Equinox
    23  We  10:40 PM  Moon Ascending Node
    25  Fr   8:13 PM  Neptune Opposition
    25  Fr   9:49 PM  Mercury-Spica: 0.9° N
    26  Sa  12:49 PM  Full Moon (Harvest Moon)
    30  We   1:39 PM  Moon-Pleiades: 1.1° S

Sky Events Calendar by Fred Espenak and Sumit Dutta (NASA’s GSFC), with modifications by the author.
http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SKYCAL/SKYCAL.html.

If you go to the above site, you can print out a list like the above for the entire year or calendar pages for your time zone.

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Ephemeris: 08/31/2026 – September’s Milky Way

August 31, 2026 Comments off

This is Ephemeris for Monday, August 31st. Today the Sun will be up for 13 hours and 17 minutes, setting at 8:21, and it will rise tomorrow at 7:05. The Moon, 3 days past full, will rise at 9:35 this evening.

In the coming nights, as the moon leaves the evening sky, we will again be able to see the summer Milky Way. In September the Milky Way will twist from roughly northeast to south to northeast overhead to southwest. The teapot asterism of the constellation Sagittarius tilts and pours its tea onto the southwestern horizon and soon also succumbs to the rotation of the earth and sets. It will give us our last chance to see the great star clouds toward the center of our galaxy. The Milky Way will be with us until spring. Actually twisting, with new parts passing overhead. But, we will be looking out, opposite from the center, to the further reaches of the Milky Way that is not as bright, but the active star forming regions are closer.

The astronomical event times given in this blog are for the Traverse City/Interlochen area of Michigan (Lat 44.7° N, Long 85.7° W; EDT, UT – 4 hours) unless stated otherwise. Times will be different for other locations.

Addendum

The Milky Way spanning the September evening sky, along with the constellations along the way. Created using Stellarium.
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Ephemeris: 08/28/2026 – Crater found from Falcon 9 impact on the Moon

August 28, 2026 Comments off

This is Ephemeris for Friday, August 28th. Today the Sun will be up for 13 hours and 25 minutes, setting at 8:26, and it will rise tomorrow at 7:01. The Moon, which was full just after midnight this morning during ther lunar eclipse, will rise at 8:36 this evening.

SpaceX made a big splash on the moon a couple of weeks ago when the second stage of the Falcon 9 rocket that delivered two lunar landers to the moon last year, itself crashed into the moon. This, plus detection of the flashes of several meteoroid strikes on the moon by the Artemis 2 crew, suggested to some scientists that lunar colonization might be a very risky thing. On the moon when something hits it, material flies off in all directions. But without an atmosphere to slow these particles down they fly a long way and will crash back onto the moon at the same velocity they were ejected with. The crash dug a crater 60 feet (18 meters) across and 10 feet (3 meters) deep.

The astronomical event times given in this blog are for the Traverse City/Interlochen area of Michigan (Lat 44.7° N, Long 85.7° W; EDT, UT – 4 hours) unless stated otherwise. Times will be different for other locations.

Addendum

An animated GIF image of an area on the moon a quarter mile on a side, showing before and after photos of the area the Falcon 9 seccond stage crashed, and the crater it made. Photos were taken from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.
An animated GIF image of an area on the moon a quarter mile on a side, showing before and after photos of the area the Falcon 9 seccond stage crashed, and the crater it made. Photos were taken from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. The before photo apparently was taken at a higher sun angle than the after photo. Image Credit: NASA Goddard/Intuitive Machines.
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