Day: October 27, 2021

October 27 On This Day in History

Important Events

312 Roman Emperor Constantine the Great is said to have received his famous Vision of the Cross

1795 Pinckney’s Treaty [Treaty of San Lorenzo] signed by Spain and US, establishing the southern boundary of the US and giving Americans right to navigate the Mississippi River

1962 Black Saturday during the Cuban Missile Crisis: An American spy plane is shot down over Cuba and the navy drops warning depth charges on Soviet submarines

1982 China announces its population has reached 1 billion plus people

1986 British government deregulates financial markets in a “Big Bang”, enhancing London’s status as a financial capital while increasing income inequality

Today’s Historical Events

Today’s Historical Events in Film and TV

Today’s Historical Events in Music

Today’s Historical Events in Sports

Astronomy Picture of the Day

Halloween and the Ghost Head Nebula

Image Credit: Mohammad Heydari-Malayeri (Observatoire de Paris) et al., ESA, NASA

Explanation: Halloween’s origin is ancient and astronomical. Since the fifth century BC, Halloween has been celebrated as a cross-quarter day, a day halfway between an equinox (equal day / equal night) and a solstice (minimum day / maximum night in the northern hemisphere). With a modern calendar however, even though Halloween occurs next week, the real cross-quarter day will occur the week after. Another cross-quarter day is Groundhog Day. Halloween’s modern celebration retains historic roots in dressing to scare away the spirits of the dead. Perhaps a fitting tribute to this ancient holiday is this view of the Ghost Head Nebula taken with the Hubble Space Telescope. Similar to the icon of a fictional ghost, NGC 2080 is actually a star forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of our own Milky Way Galaxy. The Ghost Head Nebula (NGC 2080) spans about 50 light-years and is shown in representative colors.

October 27 Daily Correspondence Digest for the Northern Hemisphere’s Moon Phase and Planetary Positions

You can use this link to go forward or backward in time for Moon phase information. If you are curious you can even find out what phase the Moon was in when you or anyone else, you know was on the date the person was born.

From Moongiant.com

Tomorrow the Moon will be in a Waning Gibbous Phase. This is the first phase after the Full Moon occurs. It lasts roughly 7 days with the Moon’s illumination growing smaller each day until the Moon becomes a Last Quarter Moon with an illumination of 50%. The average Moon rise for this phase is between 9pm and Midnight depending on the age of the phase. The moon rises later and later each night setting after sunrise in the morning. During this phase the Moon can also be seen in the early morning daylight hours on the western horizon.

Visit the October 2021 Moon Phases Calendar to see all the daily moon phase for this month.

Today’s Waning Gibbous Phase

The Waning Gibbous on October 27 has an illumination of 63%. This is the percentage of the Moon illuminated by the Sun. The illumination is constantly changing and can vary up to 10% a day. On October 27 the Moon is 20.94 days old. This refers to how many days it has been since the last New Moon. It takes 29.53 days for the Moon to orbit the Earth and go through the lunar cycle of all 8 Moon phases.

The 8 Lunar Phases

There are 8 lunar phases the Moon goes through in its 29.53 days lunar cycle. The 4 major Moon phases are Full Moon, New Moon, First Quarter and Last Quarter. Between these major phases, there are 4 minor ones: the Waxing Crescent, Waxing Gibbous, Waning Gibbous and Waning Crescent. For more info on the Moon Cycle and on each phase check out Wikipedia Lunar Phase page.

Phase Details

Phase: Waning Gibbous
Illumination: 63%
Moon Age: 20.94 days
Moon Angle: 0.50
Moon Distance: 400,549.81 km
Sun Angle: 0.54
Sun Distance: 148,637,613.73 km

Useful Moon Resources

Check the weather before a night of Moon gazing at weather.com

For a list of all the current meteor showers visit American Meteor Society

If you need to calculate the planetary positions for a specific use and time, click on this link

Currentplanetarypositions.com

To figure out GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) to your local time use this link

For Your Local Time and Date

Northeastern Hemisphere

The time for the Custom Planetary Positions is from the local time in Frankfurt, Germany, Europe

27 October 2021
01:00 pm GMT 5:00 PM CET
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:04 Scorpio 19
Moon:19 Cancer 50
Mercury:16 Libra 19
Venus:21 Sagittarius 15
Mars:27 Libra 57
Jupiter:22 Aquarius 28
Saturn:07 Aquarius 06
Uranus:13 Taurus 08 Rx
Neptune:20 Pisces 44 Rx
Pluto:24 Capricorn 25
True Lunar Node:01 Gemini 59
Mean Lunar Node:03 Gemini 00 Rx

Lilith (Black Moon):11 Gemini 12

Chiron:09 Aries 37 Rx
Ceres:11 Gemini 02 Rx
Pallas:09 Pisces 30 Rx
Juno:24 Sagittarius 00
Vesta:19 Scorpio 15
Eris:24 Aries 08 Rx

Fire:4
Earth:2
Air:8
Water:5
Cardinal:6
Fixed:5
Mutable:8

Northwestern Hemisphere

The time for the Custom Planetary Positions is from the local time in Denver, Colorado, USA

October 27, 2021
11:00 pm GMT 5:00 PM MT
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:04 Scorpio 44
Moon:24 Cancer 52
Mercury:16 Libra 50
Venus:21 Sagittarius 40
Mars:28 Libra 14
Jupiter:22 Aquarius 29
Saturn:07 Aquarius 07
Uranus:13 Taurus 07 Rx
Neptune:20 Pisces 44 Rx
Pluto:24 Capricorn 26
True Lunar Node:02 Gemini 00
Mean Lunar Node:02 Gemini 58 Rx
Lilith (Black Moon):11 Gemini 15
Chiron:09 Aries 36 Rx
Ceres:10 Gemini 59 Rx
Pallas:09 Pisces 28 Rx
Juno:24 Sagittarius 08
Vesta:19 Scorpio 28
Eris:24 Aries 08 Rx
Fire:4
Earth:2
Air:8
Water:5
Cardinal:6
Fixed:5
Mutable:8

27 October Daily Correspondence Digest for the Southern Hemisphere’s Moon Phase and Planetary Positions

You can use this link to go forward or backward in time for Moon phase information. If you are curious you can even find out what phase the Moon was in when you or anyone else, you know was on the date the person was born.

From Moongiant.com

Tomorrow the Moon will be in a Waning Gibbous Phase. This is the first phase after the Full Moon occurs. It lasts roughly 7 days with the Moon’s illumination growing smaller each day until the Moon becomes a Last Quarter Moon with an illumination of 50%. The average Moon rise for this phase is between 9pm and Midnight depending on the age of the phase. The moon rises later and later each night setting after sunrise in the morning. During this phase the Moon can also be seen in the early morning daylight hours on the western horizon.

Visit the October 2021 Moon Phases Calendar to see all the daily moon phase for this month.

Today’s Waning Gibbous Phase

The Waning Gibbous on October 27 has an illumination of 63%. This is the percentage of the Moon illuminated by the Sun. The illumination is constantly changing and can vary up to 10% a day. On October 27 the Moon is 20.94 days old. This refers to how many days it has been since the last New Moon. It takes 29.53 days for the Moon to orbit the Earth and go through the lunar cycle of all 8 Moon phases.

The 8 Lunar Phases

There are 8 lunar phases the Moon goes through in its 29.53 days lunar cycle. The 4 major Moon phases are Full Moon, New Moon, First Quarter and Last Quarter. Between these major phases, there are 4 minor ones: the Waxing Crescent, Waxing Gibbous, Waning Gibbous and Waning Crescent. For more info on the Moon Cycle and on each phase check out Wikipedia Lunar Phase page.

Phase Details

Phase: Waning Gibbous
Illumination: 63%
Moon Age: 20.94 days
Moon Angle: 0.50
Moon Distance: 400,549.81 km
Sun Angle: 0.54
Sun Distance: 148,637,613.73 km

Useful Moon Resources

Check the weather before a night of Moon gazing at weather.com

For a list of all the current meteor showers visit American Meteor Society

If you need to calculate the planetary positions for a specific use and time, click on this link

Currentplanetarypositions.com

To figure out GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) to your local time use this link

For Your Local Time and Date

Southeastern Hemisphere

The time for the Custom Planetary Positions is from the local time in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 

27 October 2021
06:00 am GMT 5:00 PM AEDT
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:04 Scorpio 02
Moon:16 Cancer 20
Mercury:15 Libra 57
Venus:20 Sagittarius 57
Mars:27 Libra 45
Jupiter:22 Aquarius 28
Saturn:07 Aquarius 06
Uranus:13 Taurus 09 Rx
Neptune:20 Pisces 44 Rx
Pluto:24 Capricorn 25
True Lunar Node:01 Gemini 59
Mean Lunar Node:03 Gemini 01 Rx
Lilith (Black Moon):11 Gemini 10
Chiron:09 Aries 38 Rx
Ceres:11 Gemini 04 Rx
Pallas:09 Pisces 31 Rx
Juno:23 Sagittarius 55
Vesta:19 Scorpio 06
Eris:24 Aries 08 Rx
Fire:4
Earth:2
Air:8
Water:5
Cardinal:6
Fixed:5
Mutable:8

 Southwestern Hemisphere

The time for the Custom Planetary Positions is from the local time in Sao Paulo, Brazil, South America

27 October 2021
08:00 pm GMT 5:00 PM BRT
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:04 Scorpio 37
Moon:23 Cancer 21
Mercury:16 Libra 40
Venus:21 Sagittarius 32
Mars:28 Libra 09
Jupiter:22 Aquarius 29
Saturn:07 Aquarius 07
Uranus:13 Taurus 07 Rx
Neptune:20 Pisces 44 Rx
Pluto:24 Capricorn 25
True Lunar Node:02 Gemini 00
Mean Lunar Node:02 Gemini 59 Rx
Lilith (Black Moon):11 Gemini 14
Chiron:09 Aries 36 Rx
Ceres:11 Gemini 00 Rx
Pallas:09 Pisces 29 Rx
Juno:24 Sagittarius 06
Vesta:19 Scorpio 24
Eris:24 Aries 08 Rx
Fire:4
Earth:2
Air:8
Water:5
Cardinal:6
Fixed:5
Mutable:8