To the seasons of life
The moon is full and its rising tonight. It will come with a lunar eclipse that will be seen in Asia viewing of the eclipse is poor in north America because of its time. A wolf moon is in some minds a traditions a moon that wolfs howl a lot at. The Moon to night is the first of 13 for 2020.
An investagation for a trail of Joan of arc begins in Rouen.
Have a good weekend.
Full moon tonight at 21:38 UTC
The moon will be full at 2:38 PDT today and it will be a buck moon. A buck moon is based on the fact that male deer begin to regrow their antlers in July. this was observed by North American Indians.
The last lunar eclipse of 2019 will begin at 11:43 PM PTD and last until 5:17 PDT . it is on Apollo 11 day and it will be a half blood moon.
The partial lunar eclipse will be able to be seen from Africa, South America, Europe and Australia, streaming available. Vancouver can look forward to enjoying a brilliant full moon for the next few days.
July 31st will see a second new moon this month. A second new moon is called a black moon.
Millennium Park is opened in Chicago
At @8:54 AM Pacific Daylight Time tomorrow morning summer begins for us in the Northern Hemisphere. There will be about 16 and a half hours of daylight making it the longest day of the year. Then the daylight will decrease until the fall equinox.
Asteroid Eureka is discovered.
According to many sources June has been a great month for blue night clouds. Noctilicent clouds have a stunning visual effect. They are made by ice crystals that are only visible in the twilight. They may be the result of increased methane in the atmosphere. The effect is also visible when the sun is low in the horizon and sunlight is still lighting white clouds.
Trade Unions are legalized in Canada.
Sunday saw a total lunar eclipse of the moon high in the sky because of the season. It resulted in a great dark sky. The total eclipse lasted 61 minutes as the moon sat like a washed pearl in a black abyss .
The next total lunar eclipse…
A moon coming to within 90 percent of its closest approach or 364,740 Kilometers of earth is super moon according to a 1979 definition.The next one is next week On January 21st. The year 2019 will see 3 more, August 1st and 3oth, and September 28th!
Next weeks moon is to be a blood moon where the shadow of the earth gets on the moon when all lined up with the sun and makes an eclipse.
Totality will last a bit longer than average: 1 hour and 2 minutes. The eclipse will actually begin when the Moon enters the faint outer portion (called the penumbra) of the Earth’s shadow about an hour before it begins moving into the umbra. The penumbra, however, is all but invisible to the eye until the Moon becomes deeply immersed in it. Sharp-eyed viewers may get their first glimpse of the penumbra as a faint “smudge” on the left part of the Moon’s disk about a half hour after it first enters the penumbral shadow.
Source Farmers Almanac, Joe Rao
Hello Dolly opens on Broadway to begin a run to nearly 3000 performances.
As reflected in NASA’s Exploration Campaign, the next step in human spaceflight is the establishment of U.S. preeminence in cislunar space through the operations and the deployment of a U.S.-led Gateway. Together with the Space Launch System (SLS) and Orion, the Gateway is central to advancing and sustaining human space exploration goals and is the unifying single stepping off point in our architecture for human cislunar operations, lunar surface access and missions to Mars. The Gateway is necessary to achieving the ambitious exploration campaign goals set forth by Space Policy Directive 1. Through partnerships both domestic and international, NASA will bring innovation and new approaches to the advancement of these U.S. human spaceflight goals Source NASA
Nasa official site May 2018
The Paris club writes off up to a 100 billon dollars of Iraq’s debt.
The people at Nasa have recently reinforced their commitment to space, the moon, and other planets by a new public relations display. The above statement is from May and you tube video from last week.
The people of earth are enriched by knowledge aquired every day by the fellowship of the discovery of the unknown and we should be grateful for its free and unfettered access. It truly is a shared goal. Good luck to the people of planet earth and may all new knowledge find place in attending the problems of this world.
Moon rising File photo KDG
The Hunters moon is coming, it will be completely full at 9:45 AM tomorrow morning here in the south central part of BC.
No matter where you live worldwide, look for a full-looking moon in the east as the sun goes down over the next several evenings. This full or full-looking moon will cross our skies throughout the night, as seen from around the globe. source earth sky
To get a good picture of the moon you need a stabilized camera platform and a remote shutter device. Smart phone do not give good photos.
The moon will be large and bright for a numbers of days including tonight.
On this Day: October 23rd 2015
Hurricane Patricia hits Mexico with record winds.
File Photo KDG
On this Day: October 1st 1958
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration opens for business.
Thanks for digital photography…
Moon rising , Merritt BC File photo KDG
The higher the latitude the greater the effect of the harvest moon. The northern hemisphere were we are has the benefit of diminishing daylight at this time making the effect more pronounced.
On this Day: September 25th 1977
Four thousand + people run the first Chicago Marathon.
File Photo KDG
There is a partial solar eclipse on Friday as well ,however it will not be able to be seen from Merritt. Antarctica, Australia and perhaps parts of India the event will be seen . However if you are in a dark sky area the full moon in the summer sky should be enjoyable. The forecast is for clear skies all weekend with a hot 37 C in the Nicola Valley, Merritt BC Ca.
The moon will be completely full here in BC is 1: 20 PM…
On this Day: July 25th 1868
Wyoming becomes a territory of the US.
The sun west of Merritt, Red from smoke, of the 2017 fire season in the Sothern interior of BC File Photo KDG
A trip around the Milky Way galaxy center is called a cosmic year. Tonight the sun reaches its half way point in the orbit.
Our Milky Way galaxy is a collection of several hundred billion stars. It has an estimated diameter of 100,000 light-years. Our sun does indeed circumnavigate the Milky Way galaxy. In space, everything moves. There are various estimates for the speed the sun travels through the galaxy, but its speed is about 140 miles per second. Source earth sky news.
And it so happens that astronomers know which star the sun is moving toward in its journey around the galaxy. Our sun and family of planets travel more or less toward the star Vega – and away from the star Sirius. Unsurprisingly, Vega and Sirius lie in opposite directions in Earth’s sky.
Look for Vega at West to Norwest. One estimate of a Cosmic year is 230 million years; this must in our minds mean that the earth is subject to different influences over the millennia including gravity and weather .
On this Day: January 16th 1934
The Harlem Apollo theater reopens in New York.
Hey Merit what do you say?
Kevin Griffiths
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