Wednesday September 23^rd the 7-day old first quarter Moon crosses the plane of the ecliptic moving south. This is known as the descending node, one of two intersections the Moon’s orbital path (dark green line) has with the ecliptic.

   On the date of the descending node the first quarter Moon will be about 20^o to the east from the heart of Scorpius the Scorpion, the reddish star Antares, and about 15-16^o west from Jupiter.
   Mercury and Spica are still a couple of degrees apart but low above the horizon as the Sun is setting.

   
   
   
   
   

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