The Night Sky September 2024

Welcome to The Night Sky series, a curated list of Deep Sky Objects, planets and notable events that are happening in the Northern Hemisphere night sky this month.

This list is broken down by various popular focal lengths complete with equivalent sensor sizes. No matter your gear, I guarantee you'll find something suitable to photo!

These are all based against a full frame Canon 5D mk3 camera when it comes to the equivalent sizings.

Planets are judged whether they rise above 20 degrees altitude for long enough to be worthwhile, this ensures they get out of the most mucky part of the atmosphere for better seeing conditions.

=== Lunar Eclipse Interactive Map ===

=== Timestamps ===

0:00 Intro
0:59 Constellation
1:32 Deep Sky Objects
1:36 200-300mm
2:12 300-400mm
2:58 500-600mm
3:02 700-800mm
3:34 1000mm
4:10 1500mm
4:56 2000mm
5:34 Planets
7:05 Moon Phases
7:34 Moon Nomenclature
8:06 Events
8:11 5th September
8:23 8th September
8:49 18th September
9:31 21st September
9:40 22nd September
9:58 Meteor Shower
10:40 Outtro

==== Contact ====

=== Damian Peach Planetary Photography ===

==== Image Credits ====

All images were sourced using the Creative Commons Licensing, which makes them eligible for use in all applications, including commercial use purposes. Full accreditation and links to where I sourced the images are here:

-- M33

Author: Alexander Meleg

-- Partial Eclipse

Author: Catalin Caciuleanu

-- Lunar Eclipse

Author: Gottfried Blumensath

-- Equinox & Solstice

Author: Colivine

-- NGC281

Author: Helber Pontes

-- NGC6888

Author: Patrick Hsieh

===== Music =====

Aerohead - Ataraxia
Alexander - Nakarada Autumn Walk

Sparks by Chaël:

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/ @chaelofficial

[willowen]

I’ve missed these so much. Especially now Alyn Wallace is no longer with us. I used to look forward to his every month. There was only you and him that did these sort of vids, so I’m glad you’re back on the scene filling the void of what’s in the night sky. Keep it up mate 🌌

[Astro_Shed]

Very useful, thanks for putting this together…👍🏻

[gregwesson]

I love these videos and I can see there is a lot of work that goes into making them. I always pull up stellarium and follow along to see what it will look like with my setup. Thanks for this!

[Tony-Elliott]

Great information again Ruzz thanks for taking the time to make these videos

[hholton]

Thanks for the info - the moon in partial eclipse would probably be a good photography target for me.

[craggy]

Many thanks for another Night Sky guide! Now the nights are drawing in once again, and yeah it’s really whet my appetite for Astrophotography once more. I never really used to bother during the summer months where nights are shortest, fitting it all in around work and many, many repeated nights of lack of clear skies! But this summer I have delved into imagining around Cygnus- a target I know well, but never really imaged in any detail yet. Keep up the good work- looking forwards to the next video!

[djlrg]

Nice to see another video from you! Good stuff and thank you for another great curated list of objects. Just a heads-up, you've got "August" in the thumbnail instead of "September" 👍🏼

[SimonsAstro]

Always good to get some inspiration Ruzz! I never know what to shoot🤣 Nicely done mate👍 Clear skies!

[billmurphypenguins]

Bring on the autumn, many thanks mate will be trying to get some imaging done.

[nightscapejournals]

Another great list, Ruz. Some great ideas in there. (PS if anyone dares to hit “thumbs down”, I’ll have a word!)

[dylan-reece]

RUZZ! Nice to see ya man! Hope all is well in your world - Bloodstone.

[DrNat]

I like the ‘not to scale (that would be terrifying)’ 😂

[bngwira]

Another great video Ruzeen! Hope you're attending the astronomy show on September 14th?

[jesuschrist]

Did you say galaxae ? :) Ty for the video very useful

[KJRitch]

Hope you have time to do some new Affinity Photos 2 videos. Maybe incorporate James Ritson's macros.