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what's up for September the moon hello

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and welcome I'm Jane Houston Jones at

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NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in

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Pasadena California September 18th is

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international observe the moon night

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this annual event is inspired by last

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year's Lunar Reconnaissance orbiters

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journey to and orbit insertion around

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our moon images from its first year

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include all six manned lunar landing

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sites and close-ups of the lunar surface

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you can join astronomers around the

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world at lunar observing events and

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observe the 10 day old moon this is a

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night when many of the most recognizable

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lunar features are visible or you can

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even hold your own observe the moon

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event and you don't even need a

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telescope the moon takes about twenty

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nine days to go around the earth once

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and it also takes the moon about 29 days

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to spin once on its axis this causes the

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same side of the moon to always face the

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earth we can see the moon's far side

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only from spacecraft sometimes the

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moon's far side is referred to as the

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Dark Side of the Moon in poetry and

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songs but this isn't accurate as the

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moon orbits earth the portion we see

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illuminated changes the first phase

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called the new moon is just a sliver

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it's difficult to see it first but each

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night it gets bigger and brighter the

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next phase is called the first quarter

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because the moon has travelled one

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quarter of its 29 day orbit around Earth

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international observe the moon night

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falls halfway between the first quarter

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and the full moon a full moon is the

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next phase on the fourteenth day of the

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lunar cycle don't miss the full moon of

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September called the Harvest Moon it

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rises in the East just before Jupiter on

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September 23rd then the illuminated

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portion visible to a shrink stew the

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last quarter use this moon observing

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journal to record the lunar phases for

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yourself

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be sure to check out the international

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observe the moon night website and join

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me along with thousands of other amateur

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astronomers on September 18th sharing

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the moon views with your community to