Supermoons and meteor showers: Five celestial events to look for this autumn

Are you inspired by the last total lunar eclipse? When the nights start to enter, there are more celestial events that should be considered in this autumn.

Meteorological autumn begins every year on the same date – September 1 – the beginning of the astronomical autumn varies according to the date of ecinox.

This causes almost equal duration of the day and night length when the sun is directly above the Earth equator.

This year, Equinox falls at 19:20 BST on September 22nd.

From this point on, the light will fade faster in the evenings and the nights will be longer.

At the end of November, we will have lost an average of five to six hours of light compared to the end of August. Check your local sunset and sunrise times here.

And there is a lot to pay attention to on those dark nights.

Saturn will be closest to the world the day before Equinox (21 September).

Because it will be in the ‘opposition’, that is, it is right opposite the sun, so it will be completely illuminated and it will look the greatest and most brilliant.

This is not an unusual event, it is one of the easiest and most satisfying planets that identify with its famous rings.

It will look like a star that can be seen with the naked eye and is not stuck in the constellation of fish. However, you will need a telescope to detect the rings.

The rest of the year will stay in the sky.

The Orionid Meteor Shower takes place between October 2 and November 7, and on October 22, peaked for about a week.

The Orionids are fast -moving meteorites with long steak light and stem from the comet of well -known Halley’s comet.

Look at the constellation of Orion, stay away from the city lights, and let your eyes adapt to the darkness before trying to detect Orionid meteors. The summit corresponds to the new moon, so that the monitoring conditions will be ideal without moonlight pollution.

This year will be less spectacular Draconid and Taurid Meteor shower.

Draconids reaches the summit on the night of October 8th and coincides with the full moon, which will make it very difficult to detect meteorites.

Similarly, the summit of the Taurid on November 12 will be affected by the light pollution from an arrogant month on a wax that produces about 5 meteor only per hour, with a 84%illuminated surface.

The moon has an elliptical orbit, and when it is at the closest point to the world, we say it is in Perigee.

Perigee is known as a super km when it coincides with the full moon. It may look 14% larger and brighter up to 30% as it is far from Earth.

The next super km will take place on November 5, and the other will be followed on December 4th.

The cloudy sky, of course, many wonderful star nights were snot.

We will need the open sky to see all these celestial events.

Currently, our jet flow in the south of England and low pressure is dominant, the weather is restless and late.

Continue to check the entire monthly view of the BBC weather here.