Nights are about to get longer and colder.

The autumnal equinox is on Sept. 22 — a day of equal daylight and darkness that happens twice per year. The fall equinox marks the point when days start to get chillier and shorter than the evenings as the Earth’s northern hemisphere tilts away from the sun.

With more evening hours to stargaze, New Yorkers can feast their eyes on bright planets and two small meteor showers this month while still catching the fading summer celestial objects.

“The nights are getting longer and the temperature is not either brutally hot or brutally cold, and the mosquitoes head to Mexico for the fall,” said Bart Fried, a member of the American Astronomical Society. “I hate freezing my butt off in the middle of winter.”

The planets will be the best sight this mont

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