Sunday, October 11, 2026

Some late summer – early fall 2026 news and events 2

 With some re-editing:


[International Owl Awareness Day is at the beginning of August – a Google search brought up www.internationalowlcenter.org/owlawarenessday.html , eagles.org/international-owl-awareness-day/ , internationaldays.co/ (?), etc.]


[立秋 is August 7th-23rd in 2026. – en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liqiu ]


[Islamic Unity Week was around August 30th?]


[NC Big Sweep is every September?  Vulture Day 2026 was in the first week of September? –vultureday.org ]  [The 30th Annual California Condor Release at Vermilion Cliffs National Monument will be September 26th. – peregrinefund.org/help-condors ]  [The annual Swift Nights Out were in September (but chimney swifts were still flying overhead here as of September 30th).]  [National CleanUp Day was September 19th – National Day Calendar.]


[From Keep Durham Beautiful October 1st –


... "Thursday, October 1 from 4-6PM at the Durham County Fall Plant Sale!


... "Backyard Butterflies Fall Plant Sale on Saturday, October 3. The NC Native Plant Society also keeps a great list of local nurseries selling native plants. Happy planting!"

...

"Come join the Durham LGBTQ Center from September 27 to October 3 for their inaugural Durham Pride Week!" ...

...


[Venus and the relatively bright star Spica in the constellation Virgo were about 1 1/2 degrees apart in the west after sunset on September 1st.


The waning but still very bright (60 percent full) Moon will appear to be very close to the Pleiades star cluster (M45) in the constellation  Taurus early on September 3rd the 13th; from Alaska and nearby regions of Russia and Canada the Moon will occlude some of the Pleiades.  Binoculars are recommended.  There will be another Moon-Pleiades conjunction (about 5 1/2 degrees apart) September 30th, this time in the evening, but the Americas won't have a good view (?).


The Moon, Mars, Gemini, and Jupiter will appear together in the east before dawn on the 7th.


The Moon and Jupiter will be about 3 1/2 degrees apart early on the 8th and closing, with a daytime occultation visible over Iceland, Greenland, Alaska, and most of Canada, the US (but not from the Southwest and West Coast?), and the Caribbean (but a telescope is required [of course Jupiter and the Moon can be seen at night without any special equipment]).  It will begin around 3-3:30pm here, but around 1pm from the Mountain states.  There will be monthly occultations to May 2027,  but only the occultations in September (the 1st) and October [at night on the morning of the 6th] will be visible for North America. – from the September issue of Sky & Telescope magazine.]   


[The Democratic People's Republic of Korea was founded September 9, 1948 and Mao Zedong (or Tse-tung) passed away September 9, 1976; – diario-octubre.com/2026/09/10/aniversario-de-la-fundacion-de-la-rpdc/ , diario-octubre.com/2026/09/10/xi-jinping-saluda-la-construccion-socialista-de-la-rpdc-gracias-a-la-autosuficiencia-la-unidad-y-el-trabajo-duro/ , diario-octubre.com/2026/09/11/cincuenta-anos-despues-de-mao-un-legado-para-cambiar-el-rumbo-de-la-historia/ , en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_holidays_in_North_Korea , en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mao_Zedong  Also – liberationnews.org/eyewitness-at-attica-reflections-55-years-later/ and liberationnews.org/the-life-and-death-of-amilcar-cabral-and-steve-biko/ ]


[Mars (now only magnitude 1.2, but a brighter -1.2 by February) was under a degree from the relatively dim (magnitude 3.5) star Wasat (delta Geminorum) on one 'side' of Gemini early on September 9th and they still appear close together, but Mars can be seen to be slowly moving east night by night.]  [(September 20th – Or not so slowly?)]  [Mars will enter the constellation Cancer September 25th.]


[The 38th annual Sculpture in the Garden at the North Carolina Botanical Garden is September 12th-December 6th.]


[At dusk on September 13th Venus (magnitude -4.7) and the (9 percent full?) Moon will be about 5 1/2 degrees apart and the Moon will be about 3 1/2 degrees from Spica in the western sky.] 


[The thin crescent waning Moon was near and above the relatively bright star Regulus in the constellation Leo near dawn on the 9th.] 


[Yellow tickseed flowers (Bidens) opened here around the 10th.  Perennial black-eyed Susans (Rudbeckia; biennial black-eyed Susans finished?), elephant's foot, yellow and orange Coreopsis (?), etc. opened earlier.  Many more crape myrtle flowers in 2026?  Orange sicklepod flowers soon?  More katydids and other orthopterans, butterflies, and sphinx/hawk moths.  A large stag, a few owls, more woodpeckers, etc. have been around.  Two black rhinoceros beetles or one came in twice.  A large toad on the wet morning of Sunday, September 13th.  Many more notes.  Pawpaws probably started ripening in early August here, persimmons and pears [and wild grapes?] in September, and mast nuts in October.  Few?  Saw a few persimmons on the large tree around the 12th.  Drought early and late, but abundant rain in July-August.]  [Very few dragonflies here in 2026, but some now, 'late,' in mid-September.  A late male firefly was still out here, around 7:37pm on September 17th.]


[Rowan Creek Week 2026 in Rowan County, NC is September 12-19th – rowancreekweek.org or www.rowancountync.gov/1464/Creek-Week and www.facebook.com/rowancreekweek/ ]


[The National Teapot Show XIII at the Cedar Creek Gallery in Creedmoor, NC was on show from late May? to September 12th? [May 15th-September 14th?] – cedarcreekgallery.com/pages/national-teapot-show-faq and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedar_Creek_Gallery ]


[The 19th annual Pepperfest is today, September 13th (?) {12-6pm] in Pittsboro, NC – www.theplantnc.com/event-details/19th-annual-pepperfest  Also – www.theplantnc.com/event-details/from-seed-to-story-the-malagueta-pepper-and-the-roots-we-carry , www.theplantnc.com/event-details/yamauka-my-ancestors-still-sit-here-documentary-sneak-peek-q-a , www.theplantnc.com/event-details/plants-read-too-outdoor-book-festival , etc,  The Eno River Association had its 60th anniversary events September 12th.]


[The near quarter Moon and the relatively bright star Antares in the quickly setting summer constellation Scorpius will appear about 5 1/2 degrees apart in the southwestern sky September 17th.]


[The 2026 NC Folk Festival will be September 18-20th in Greensboro.]


[The 2026 Guilford Native American Association Pow Wow is September 18-20th at Country Park (3905 Nathanael Greene Drive) in Greensboro; organized by the Guilford Native American Association and the City of Greensboro. – www.greensboro-nc.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/168879/7751  


Many more upcoming powwows are listed at:  powwows.com ​, including the 13th annual Santee Indian Tribe Pow Wow September 19th in Holly Hill, South Carolina; the 2026 Nottoway Tribe of Virginia Pow Wow September 19-20th in Surry, Virginia; the 43rd annual WilCo Pow Wow September 26-27th in Lebanon, Tennessee; The Echota Cherokee Tribe of Alabama 2026 Festival​ September 26-27th in Falkville, Alabama; the Chickahominy Indian Tribe 74th Annual Fall Festival & Pow Wow September 26-27th in Providence Forge, ​Virginia; the Cherokee of Georgia 45th Annual Fall Pow Wow October 1st-3rd in Saint George, Georgia; the 2026 ​Wassamasaw Annual Pow Wow October 10th in Moncks Corner, SC; the 2026 Indigenous Peoples Celebration, Standing Peachtree Native American Festival October 10-11th in East Point, Georgia; the 41st annual Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation Pow Wow October 10-11th in Burlington, NC​; ​the Lower Muskogee Creek Tribe Cultural Days & Pow Wow 2026​ October 16-18th in Whigham, Georgia; the NAIA 45th Annual Indian Education Tennessee Pow Wow October 16-18th in Nashville, Tennessee; the Historic Badin Hardaway Pow Wow 2026​ October 17-18th in , Albemarle, NC ​(at 26130 Newt Road; historic Morrow Mountain and Town Creek Indian Mound – historicsites.nc.gov/all-sites/town-creek-indian-mound – are in the vicinity); the Southeastern Mvskoke Nation 3rd Annual Creek Friend's Festival October 17th in Troy, Alabama (and on Facebook?); and the 34th annual Waccamaw Indian People Cultural Arts Festival & Pauwau November 7-8th in Aynor, SC; etc.]


[Astronomy Day (fall?) is September 19th – AstronomyDay.astroleague.org ]


[Centerfest 2026 will be September 19-20th in downtown Durham.]


[National CleanUp Day was September 19th. – National Day Calendar ]


[The UN International Day of Peace or World Peace Day is September 21st – en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Day_of_Peace ]


[The Northern Hemisphere's fall equinox will be September 22nd (at about 8:05pm).] 


[I had planned post to around August 17th or 21st, etc. and September 22nd but I don't know if it will work out.]


[The traditional Libra period begins around September 23rd (or with the equinox?), replacing Virgo and followed by Scorpio;  Charleston, SC, along with Antwerp; Frankfurt; Lisbon; Rome; Vienna; Aethiopia; Alsace; Austria; India; Italy; Livonia; Portugal; and Savoy, and the west wind Zephyrus were apparently associated with the sign Libra (see the book Star Names).]  [ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libra_(constellation) and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libra_(astrology) ;  RH Allen's book, now digitized and online, is much more detailed, though old.]  [See:  penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Topics/astronomy/_Texts/secondary/ALLSTA/Libra*.html (on Libra), penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Topics/astronomy/_Texts/secondary/ALLSTA/Ara*.html (on the constellation Ara, possibly related to Libra), and penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/e/gazetteer/topics/astronomy/_texts/secondary/allsta/home.html (the index).]


[Neptune (magnitude 7.8) will reach opposition September 23rd [or on the 25th at about 10pm?]; it can be found near Saturn and the Moon on the 23rd; [Neptune is in Pisces, on a line going south down the east side of the great square of Pegasus;] I think the anniversary of the discovery of Neptune is also around now.]  [September 23, 1846 – en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neptune ]  [ 海王星 , etc.] 


[Watch for copperheads on roads at night in the Triangle around now (I haven't seen any in 2026 so far, but I did see a few right here last summer and stepped near one one cool morning after sunrise; I have a photo of the very nicely patterned snake:  durhamspark.blogspot.com/2023/09/watch-for-copperheads-on-roads-in-fall.html and durhamspark.blogspot.com/2023/09/living-with-snakes.html ]  [ triangleland.org/news/snake-ssseason-is-here ]


[Jupiter will enter the constellation Leo September 24th.]


[On the September 11, 1973 coup in Chile – liberationnews.org/the-first-september-11-washingtons-war-on-the-chilean-road-to-socialism/


President Salvador Allende's last words to the Chilean people – www.tortillaconsal.com/bitacora/node/520 ]


[ fair.org/home/pinochet-carried-out-terrorism-less-than-two-miles-from-the-white-house/ ]


[ fair.org/home/sarah-anderson-on-the-letelier-moffitt-murders/ ]


[ www.rt.com/news/644476-ice-arrested-worst-of-worst/ ]


[September 16–18, 1982 – adc.org/sabra-and-shatila-44-years-of-an-open-wound/ ]


[Alex Odeh, 41, of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) was killed by a bomb hidden in the ADC office in Santa Ana, California October 11, 1985.  Out October 30th – 





This is the post 1,002 on DS, unintended, and there are other duplicate posts ( durhamspark.blogspot.com/2026/02/machine-censored-posts-2.html , etc.


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