Day: November 27, 2021

November 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

The Moon’s current phase for today and tonight is a Third Quarter phase. Sometimes called a Last Quarter Moon, this phase occurs roughly 3 weeks after the New Moon when the Moon is three quarter of the way through it’s orbit around the earth. If you live in the northern hemisphere the Moons left side will be illuminated and the right side will be dark. For those of you in the southern hemisphere it will be the opposite with the right side illuminated. On the day of the Third Quarter phase the Moon will rise around midnight on the eastern horizon and set in the west around noon the next day. In the days following the Third Quarter Phase the Moon’s illumination will decrees each day until the New Moon.

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

Today’s Last Quarter Phase

The Last Quarter on November 27 has an illumination of 50%. 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 November 27 the Moon is 22.13 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: Last Quarter
Illumination: 50%
Moon Age: 22.13 days
Moon Angle: 0.52
Moon Distance: 386,640.14 km
Sun Angle: 0.54
Sun Distance: 147,589,014.09 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 For 1700 CEST GMT 1600 Post 1000 CT

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

27 November 2021
04:00 pm GMT 5:00 PM CEST
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:05 Sagittarius 37
Moon:07 Virgo 23
Mercury:04 Sagittarius 46
Venus:18 Capricorn 24
Mars:19 Scorpio 05
Jupiter:24 Aquarius 57
Saturn:08 Aquarius 43
Uranus:11 Taurus 53 Rx
Neptune:20 Pisces 24 Rx
Pluto:24 Capricorn 57

True Lunar Node:01 Gemini 42

Mean Lunar Node:01 Gemini 21 Rx
Lilith (Black Moon):14 Gemini 39
Chiron:08 Aries 39 Rx
Ceres:04 Gemini 59 Rx
Pallas:10 Pisces 08
Juno:04 Capricorn 30
Vesta:05 Sagittarius 59
Eris:23 Aries 51 Rx

Fire:5
Earth:5
Air:6
Water:3
Cardinal:5
Fixed:4
Mutable:10
Obliquity of the Nine Planets

Northwestern Hemisphere

The time for the Custom Planetary Positions is from the local time in Chicago, Illinois, USA

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

Sun:05 Sagittarius 55
Moon:11 Virgo 10
Mercury:05 Sagittarius 13
Venus:18 Capricorn 35
Mars:19 Scorpio 17
Jupiter:24 Aquarius 59
Saturn:08 Aquarius 44
Uranus:11 Taurus 52 Rx
Neptune:20 Pisces 24 Rx
Pluto:24 Capricorn 58
True Lunar Node:01 Gemini 42
Mean Lunar Node:01 Gemini 20 Rx
Lilith (Black Moon):14 Gemini 41
Chiron:08 Aries 39 Rx
Ceres:04 Gemini 55 Rx
Pallas:10 Pisces 10
Juno:04 Capricorn 36
Vesta:06 Sagittarius 08
Eris:23 Aries 51 Rx
Fire:5
Earth:5
Air:6
Water:3
Cardinal:5
Fixed:4
Mutable:10

Plant portraits

The illustrations in medieval herbals are beautiful and mysterious. But if you know how to read them, they also convey a wealth of knowledge about the plants they portray.

From WelcomeCollection.com

The illustrated herbal has an almost unbroken line of descent from the ancient Greeks to the Middle Ages. The tradition owes much to a work by the Greek physician Dioscorides called ‘De Materia Medica’ (50–70 CE), which describes around 1,000 medicines, largely derived from plants, along with some animals and mineral substances.

‘De Materia Medica’ was circulated throughout the European and Islamic worlds. During that time it was translated, embellished and added to in commentaries and copies for local use. In Europe, this tradition developed into the medieval herbal, created in monasteries, usually by …

 

Astronomy Picture of the Day

Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.

2021 November 27

Messier 101

Image Credit: NASA, ESA, CFHT, NOAO;
Acknowledgement – K.Kuntz (GSFC), F.Bresolin (U.Hawaii), J.Trauger (JPL), J.Mould (NOAO), Y.-H.Chu (U. Illinois)

Explanation: Big, beautiful spiral galaxy M101 is one of the last entries in Charles Messier’s famous catalog, but definitely not one of the least. About 170,000 light-years across, this galaxy is enormous, almost twice the size of our own Milky Way. M101 was also one of the original spiral nebulae observed by Lord Rosse’s large 19th century telescope, the Leviathan of Parsontown. Assembled from 51 exposures recorded by the Hubble Space Telescope in the 20th and 21st centuries, with additional data from ground based telescopes, this mosaic spans about 40,000 light-years across the central region of M101 in one of the highest definition spiral galaxy portraits ever released from Hubble. The sharp image shows stunning features of the galaxy’s face-on disk of stars and dust along with background galaxies, some visible right through M101 itself. Also known as the Pinwheel Galaxy, M101 lies within the boundaries of the northern constellation Ursa Major, about 25 million light-years away.

27 November 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 

Today and tonight the Moon will be in a Third Quarter phase. Sometimes called a Last Quarter Moon, this phase occurs roughly 3 weeks after the New Moon when the Moon is three quarter of the way through it’s orbit around the earth. If you live in the northern hemisphere the Moons left side will be illuminated and the right side will be dark. For those of you in the southern hemisphere it will be the opposite with the right side illuminated. On the day of the Third Quarter phase the Moon will rise around midnight on the eastern horizon and set in the west around noon the next day. In the days following the Third Quarter Phase the Moon’s illumination will decrees each day until the New Moon.

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

Today’s Last Quarter Phase

The Last Quarter on November 27 has an illumination of 50%. 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 November 27 the Moon is 22.13 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: Last Quarter
Illumination: 50%
Moon Age: 22.13 days
Moon Angle: 0.52
Moon Distance: 386,640.14 km
Sun Angle: 0.54
Sun Distance: 147,589,014.09 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 November 2021
06:00 am GMT 5:00 PM AEDT
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:05 Sagittarius 12
Moon:02 Virgo 01
Mercury:04 Sagittarius 06
Venus:18 Capricorn 07
Mars:18 Scorpio 47
Jupiter:24 Aquarius 54
Saturn:08 Aquarius 41
Uranus:11 Taurus 54 Rx
Neptune:20 Pisces 24 Rx
Pluto:24 Capricorn 57

True Lunar Node:01 Gemini 42 Rx

Mean Lunar Node:01 Gemini 22 Rx
Lilith (Black Moon):14 Gemini 37

Chiron:08 Aries 40 Rx

Ceres:05 Gemini 05 Rx
Pallas:10 Pisces 05
Juno:04 Capricorn 21
Vesta:05 Sagittarius 45
Eris:23 Aries 52 Rx

Fire:5
Earth:5
Air:6
Water:3
Cardinal:5
Fixed:4
Mutable:10

 

Southwestern Hemisphere

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

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

Sun:05 Sagittarius 47
Moon:09 Virgo 32
Mercury:05 Sagittarius 02
Venus:18 Capricorn 30
Mars:19 Scorpio 12
Jupiter:24 Aquarius 59
Saturn:08 Aquarius 44
Uranus:11 Taurus 53 Rx
Neptune:20 Pisces 24 Rx
Pluto:24 Capricorn 58
True Lunar Node:01 Gemini 42
Mean Lunar Node:01 Gemini 20 Rx
Lilith (Black Moon):14 Gemini 40
Chiron:08 Aries 39 Rx
Ceres:04 Gemini 57 Rx
Pallas:10 Pisces 09
Juno:04 Capricorn 33
Vesta:06 Sagittarius 04
Eris:23 Aries 51 Rx
Fire:5
Earth:5
Air:6
Water:3
Cardinal:5
Fixed:4
Mutable:10