The 12th annual International Moonlit Night Observing (InOMN) event is held on Saturday nights, and there are many virtual and in-person events around the DMV.
Saturday Night – Year 12 “International moonlit night observation“(InOMN) and the District of Columbia celebrate 9 different events. Watch Moon Night International sponsored by Lunar reconnaissance orbiter and the Solar System Exploration Division of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center with the support of many partners.
Moon lovers and lovers from all over the world will be observing the Moon and sponsoring commemorative moon watching events.
As stated on NASA’s InOMN website, the objectives of the International Moon Night Observation are as follows:
- Gather people from all over the world for a celebration of observation, science and lunar exploration.
- Provides information, platform and resources for:
- Raise awareness of NASA’s lunar exploration and exploration programs.
- Let people learn more about the Moon and space exploration by using the Moon as an accessible entry point.
- Make it easy to share stories, photos, moon-inspired images, and more.
- Inspire constant observation of the moon, sky and the world around us.
meThere is no DMV this year 9 INOMN events were held… NASA Goddard hosts virtual events, while the National Air and Space Museum’s Haas Public Observatory and George Mason University host InOMN events live.
The virtual telescope project will be launched online at 1:30 pm ET to offer commentary and views of the moon of Rome…
Also online at 16:00 EDT, Institute of the Moon and Planetarium will give a live presentation in “Cold Moon”, which “will shed light on the mysterious craters of the Moon’s south pole, containing water ice and a key to future exploration of the Moon and the solar system.”
NASA Television will air from 7:30 pm to 8:30 pm ET with greetings from people from all over the world, ancient Inca history of the moon, close-ups of the lunar surface as seen through Slooh telescopes in Chile and the Canary Islands, flights about the features of the moon highlighted on this year’s lunar map, and information on NASA’s VIPER mission and the Artemis program, which plans to send humans to the moon’s south pole.
Come out and think about the moon …humanity returns this time to stay… NASA Space Launch System (SLS) Rocket preparing for this Artemis 1 Mission what NASA will launch new manned spacecraft Orion, on a three-week flight over the moon.
Enjoy an autumn night under the beautiful moonlight … Incidentally, this bright “star” in the upper right corner of the Moon is Jupiter, and to the right of Jupiter is the ring planet Saturn.
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