The September Equinox marks the first day of Autumn. The Equinox occurs at 19:11 GMT when the sun will shine directly on the equator and there will be close to equal amounts of day and night all around the world!

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On this day, the moon will be three-quarters of its way through its orbit around Earth.

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency will use the Epsolon Rocket to launch the Rapid Innovative Payload Demonstration Satellite 2 (RAISE 2) as a technological demonstration mission from the Uchinoura Space Center.

A Russian Soyuz rocket will launch the Soyuz MS-19 crew to the International Space Station with two space tourists. A Russian film director, Klim Shipenko and a Russian actress Yulia Peresild who plan to film a movie whilst spending 7 days in space. Accompanied by experienced cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov.

The new moon arrives at 1105 GMT where it will be less than 1 day young.

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The Draconid Meteor shower will be active throughout 6-10 Oct however the peak of the meteor shower will be visible on the night of Oct 8th.

The moon and venus will be appearing quite close together on October 9th! They will reach their highest point in the sky during the daytime and should be visible with the naked eye, but definitely with a pair of binoculars.

This imagining x-ray polarimetry explorer will be launched into a 540-km circular orbit. During it’s 2-year mission it will target various parts of the universe including active galactic nuclei, supernova remnants, the galactic centre and more!

A very small CubeSat weighing just 25kg will be the first spacecraft to test a lunar orbit as a part of the CAPSTONE experiment. CAPSTONE orbit the moon for at least 6-months to understand the orbital path.

Lucy will be the first mission to the Trojan Asteroids which are associated with Jupiter and thought to be the remains of material that formed the outer planets.

The Full “Hunters” Moon originates its name from when deers and other various animals had fatted themselves over the summer and the hunters would track and kill their prey to stockpile food for the coming winter months.

Whilst this meteor shower will be active all month long, it will peak overnight on the evening of October 21st, the best time to view the meteor shower in it’s beauty.

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The planet Mercury reaches greatest western elongation from the Sun. This is the best time to view Mercury since it will be at its highest point above the horizon in the evening sky. You can look for the planet low in the sky just after sunset without the need for binoculars or a telescope due to Mercury’s brightness.

A Russian Soyuz Rocket will launch the Progress 79 cargo re-supply spacecraft top the ISS. It will launch from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the Crew Dragon spacecraft on the Crew-3 mission which will be the third operational astronaut flight to the ISS.