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September 26, 2026

The sky on September 26, 2026

Moon. On the evening of September 26, 2026 the Moon is full moon, 100% illuminated. That day the Moon sets at 6:46 AM MDT and rises at 6:36 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.

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APOD: 2026 September 26: Mirrored Meteor and Milky Way

A Perseid meteor crossed the sky beside the Milky Way over La Palma's Roque de los Muchachos Observatory on August 15. The 23 meter mirror of LST-1, a prototype telescope for the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory, fills the foreground and is built to catch flashes of light lasting about a billionth of a second. The shot shows what a peak meteor night and a dark observatory site can deliver together.

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