Mark these September astronomy events on your calendar

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Chris Palma, Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at Penn State University, joins the AccuWeather Network to share the top astronomy events to mark down on your September calendar.

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00:00well september brings a change in the seasons and a few stunning sights in the night sky

00:04joining us with what to watch for is professor chris palma astronomy and astrophysics professor

00:10at penn state's eberly college of science i really need to get my telescope oh my god every

00:16month every month i hear september's full moon is called the corn moon why is that and i heard

00:23there's also a lunar eclipse this month will be able to see it yeah so i mean drive around

00:31pennsylvania and you should hopefully figure out why we're calling this the corn moon right it's

00:36corn harvesting time so our the moon has for a very very long time been our calendar right so

00:44so we use it to um track the months and and since it's corn harvest time a lot of native american

00:50cultures in particular called this uh month's full moon something like the corn harvest moon

00:57uh you're also right uh this month's full moon is a lunar eclipse uh unfortunately it's not going to

01:04be visible uh in the united states the the moon passes through earth's shadow uh in a relatively

01:11few hours compared to the whole day that it is full and it's just going to happen to pass through the

01:17shadow uh during daytime for us so we're we're not going to see the the lunar eclipse this month

01:23and chris unfortunately 20 seconds what else can we look forward to

01:27yeah uh september 21st saturn at opposition it will be the biggest brightest and closest to earth

01:35uh this year so when you get that telescope out look for saturn uh later this month it should look

01:42beautiful all right chris palma from penn state we thank you so much for being with us this morning

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