The sky on September 24, 2026
Moon. On the evening of September 24, 2026 the Moon is waxing gibbous, 97% illuminated. That day the Moon sets at 4:35 AM MDT and rises at 5:50 PM MDT. Times are for Denver, Colorado; they shift by minutes to an hour elsewhere in the US and Canada.
Visible this week
- Aurora Outlook: Solar Cycle 25 Decline, September 24, 2026 to December 31, 2028. Northern US states and all of Canada; strong geomagnetic storms can push visibility as far south as the mid-latitude US.
Sourced stories
A TV series is in development based on Out of the Shadows, a memoir by the former head of the Pentagon's UAP task force. Jay Stratton led the U.S. Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force, writer Terence Winter and producer Dan Farah are attached, and William Morrow publishes the book in October. For anyone following official UAP investigations, it promises a first-person look at the bureaucracy behind them.
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A crater 728 feet wide formed on the Moon between April and May 2024, the largest fresh one ever found. A comet or asteroid roughly the height of a three to six story building made it, and a NASA scientist spotted it in Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter images on Oct. 24, 2025. It is named McGetchin, and it is a reminder that the Moon you scan with binoculars is still being hit today.
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