The Sky This Week: April 11 – 18

Saturn and Mars rise before midnight, asteroid 6 Hebe lies with Leo the Lion, and the Winter Hexagon continues to dominate the night sky.

Monday, April 11
Although the calendar may say it is spring, the so-called Winter Hexagon remains prominent on April evenings. One of the sky’s largest asterisms — a recognizable pattern of stars separate from a constellation’s form — the hexagon stands out in the western sky after darkness falls. To trace this asterism, start with southern Orion’s luminary, Rigel. From there, the hexagon makes a clockwise loop. The second stop is brilliant Sirius in Canis Major. Next, pick up Procyon in the faint constellation Canis Minor, then the twins Castor and Pollux in Gemini, followed by Capella in Auriga, Aldebaran in Taurus, and finally back to Rigel. The waxing crescent Moon adds to the scene from its current perch within the hexagon.

Tuesday, April 12
Saturn rises just before midnight local daylight time this week and climbs highest in the south shortly before morning twilight starts to paint the sky. The ringed planet shines at magnitude 0.3 among the much fainter background stars of southern Ophiuchus. Any telescope will show you Saturn’s 18″-diameter disk surrounded by a spectacular ring system that spans 40″ and tilts 26° to our line of sight.

Wednesday, April 13
You can find the First Quarter Moon high in the southwest as darkness falls, then watch as it sinks toward the western horizon, where it sets shortly after 2 a.m. local daylight time. Our satellite officially reaches its First Quarter phase at 11:59 p.m. EDT. The half-lit Moon spends the night among the background stars of southern Gemini the Twins.

Thursday, April 14
Asteroid 6 Hebe currently lies among the background stars of eastern Leo the Lion, just a stone’s throw from 2nd-magnitude Denebola. This region rides high in the southeast during the early evening hours and peaks in the south around 11 p.m. local daylight time. This evening, 10th-magnitude Hebe lies some 2.5° due north of Denebola.

Friday, April 15
Although Jupiter reached opposition and peak visibility over a month ago (on March 8), it remains a stunning sight from dusk until the start of morning twilight. The giant planet shines at magnitude –2.4 against the backdrop of Leo the Lion. Turn a telescope on Jupiter and you will see a 43″-diameter disk with lots of atmospheric detail. And this evening, you also can observe the shadows of two of its large moons. Volcanic Io casts its shadow onto the jovian cloud tops starting at 6:55 p.m. EDT (unfortunately still during daylight), but the black dot doesn’t leave the disk until 9:10 p.m. If you miss Io, you don’t have to wait long for icy Europa’s shadow to show up. It traverses Jupiter from 9:32 p.m. until 12:18 a.m.

Saturday, April 16
Mars pokes above the eastern horizon just after 11 p.m. local daylight time this week and remains prominent until morning twilight is well underway. The Red Planet’s eastward motion relative to the background stars of southern Ophiuchus comes to a halt today; it then starts moving westward at the start of its so-called retrograde loop. This is a sure sign that Mars is approaching peak visibility, which it will reach at opposition in late May. Our neighboring world currently shines at magnitude–1.0, trailing only the Moon, Jupiter, and Sirius. When viewed through a telescope, Mars appears 14″ across and should display a prominent north polar cap as well as subtle dark markings.

Sunday, April 17
The waxing gibbous Moon’s motion through the night sky carries it near Jupiter tonight. The night sky’s two brightest objects appear only 2° apart, or about four times the Moon’s diameter.
 

Source

Astronomy Magazine

 

Your Daily Sun & Moon Data for Tuesday, April 12

Sun
Sun Direction: ↑ 111.43° ESE
Sun Altitude: 39.30°
Sun Distance: 93.201 million mi
Next Solstice: Jun 20, 2016 5:34 PM (Summer)
Sunrise Today: 6:24 AM↑ 78° East
Sunset Today: 7:27 PM↑ 282° West
Length of Daylight: 13 hours, 3 minutes

 

Moon
Moon Direction: ↑ 57.43° ENE
Moon Altitude: -11.33°
Moon Distance: 233482 mi
Next Full Moon: Apr 22, 201612:23 AM
Next New Moon: May 6, 20162:29 PM
Next Moonrise: Today10:51 AM
Current Moon Phase: Waxing Crescent
Illumination: 33.7%

 

Source

timeanddate.com

 

We had a lot of members respond to the post I made about the site that was stealing everything we owned. I wanted to up-date you real quick. I have turned him over to every possible site that deals with individuals like this. One in particular is the DMC. I filed a report with them. Then they send a notice to the site and give that site a certain time period to remove our material. If the site refuses, the DMC removes the material and also places a warning on that site. I also filed another complaint through WordPress.org. The WordPress that we deal with is a .com and there is also a .org site. I had emailed WordPress.com and we have always had a fantastic relationship with them. They gave me several useful links to pursue and apologized there was nothing they could do because it was the WordPress.org.

 

I believe what will get our material off his site is that I found out his name, address, phone number, country he is in and also his ISP address. Come to find out he is located in Pakistan. I don’t know if you know it or not but Pakistan has a law against witchcraft. So little old me notified a part of the Pakistan government that controls their internet. I informed the government that there was a Pakistan site that was publishing witchcraft material on it. I gave them everything they needed to know. I was assured by the representative that this matter would be addressed promptly.

 

Right now, it is a wait and see game. Wait and see who get him first! Perhaps you think we went to extremes but I don’t. Like I stated yesterday, we have done this for 15 years and we have never run into someone with such gall. It just hit me like this person thought he could do anything he wanted, no matter what. I hope he has learned one thing, it is not happening here. If after all this, we don’t get our material removed from his site, I will be taking up donation for a ticket to Pakistan. I bet you never would have guessed this made me mad as an old, wet hen.

 

I am going to stop or else I will be fuming again. I do want to thank all of our members that made comments to him on his site. Also the many suggestions that we received from you. I appreciate you banding with us during the situation. It is wonderful to know that you have such people ready to jump to your aid when needed. Never, ever forget we truly do love you.

 

Now, let’s get this show on the road….

Love,

Lady A

As you know, we provide information each day for our members to read, use on their site or for personal use. Everyone has always taken an item or two from our site, which is fine. But the other day, I was posting and I kept getting ping-backs. Ping-backs let me know where the information is going. We got so many that I stopped and followed them. They all went straight to a site by the name of koreandrama2016.com. As I got to checking this site out, I found they had used our trademarked name in their menu at the top of the page. They also used our trademarked name in their category section on the right hand side of their site. I clicked on our name and found 8 pages of information they had stolen from our site. To make matter worse, they have an archive section. If you check that out, everyone of those months listed in their archives are directly linked to our archives. They are building their site directly from ours. The only thing they haven’t stolen yet is our graphics. To say I was angry is an understatement.

 

I contacted WordPress and they cannot help because this site is not hosted by them. But they did give me the resources to turn this site over to the proper authorities. That is what I have been doing, turning them into ever agency I can. The information wouldn’t have pissed me off so bad but when I saw them using our name in their menu and category section, I hit the roof. I don’t know what the owner of this site is thinking apparently they aren’t. But I do know one thing, I will not help another site by building it for them. We work hard every day to put out the information to our members (and oh, yes, this person is not even a member here), for your enjoyment and your use. We don’t have a problem with that. But we have a very big problem when someone take our name and uses it in their menu, makes an entire section of everything we have ever posted and then link to every item in our archives.

 

I know they will stopping by to see what we have posted today and I wanted them to read this. I want them to know I am working as hard as I can today to get their group shut down. I have contacted the DMC and also Copyright and Infringement site and baby, I am just getting started. This is unacceptable and I can guarantee you I will not stop till you are closed down or you remove our name and material from your site.

 

For any of our members that would like to visit the site and make a comment, feel free. We would deeply appreciate it. In the meantime, I am back to getting them shut down permanently.

 

I hope you understand and we will be back tomorrow or later on today.

Till then,

Love ya,

Lady A

Site’s name, just in case you want to leave them a comment or two! Better yet, I would encourage you to leave them a comment or two!