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The Shallow Sky in September

Evening Planets

• Venus is low in the southwest evening sky at sunset, shining brightly at -4.5 magnitude.  

• Mars has faded to magnitude 1.5 and lies to the right of Venus, low in the southwest in evening twilight.  

• The dwarf planet Ceres is fairly high in the sky before midnight.  It is visible in small telescopes at magnitude 8.9.

• Pluto is fairly high in the sky after twilight, well-placed for telescopic observation in 8-inch or larger scopes.

• Jupiter is rising in the east after twilight.  It is high overhead by midnight, shining at magnitude -2.9.

• Uranus is high in the sky at midnight.

• Neptune is rising in the east before midnight.

• The 18th-magnitude dwarf planet Eris is rising in the east after 10 PM.

Evening twilight, 40N.