16 September
1662: On 16 September 1662 there was a solar eclipse, witnessed in Derby, England, by a sixteen-year-old boy called John Flamsteed.Flamsteed's interest in astronomy was stirred by this eclipse, and ...
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1789: On 17 September 1789, Sir William Herschel, the German-born British astronomer discovered Saturn's moon Mimas.
The surface of Mimas is dominated by an impact crater 130 kilometres across (almost one third of the diameter of the entire moon), called Herschel in honour of the moon's discoverer.
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15 September
1968: On 15 September 1968, Zond 5 was launched. Part of the Soviet space programme, it became the first spacecraft to orbit the Moon and return. At the time it ...
14 September
1926: On 14 September 1926, Johan Ludvig Emil Dreyer died.Dreyer was a Danish astronomer who compiled the New General Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars (NGC) in 1888.He had ...
13 September
1994: On 13 September 1994, ESA's Ulysses spacecraft reached a point less than 10 degrees from the Sun's south pole.Just as the polar regions of Earth were the last to ...
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