Day: December 28, 2021
December 28 Today In History
Today’s Important Historical Events
1065 Westminster Abbey Consecrated in London
1612 First observation of Neptune – Galileo observes and records a “fixed star” without realising it is a planet
1767 King Taksin crowned King of Thailand and establishes Thonburi as his capital
1836 Spain recognizes the independence of Mexico
1860 Harriet Tubman arrives in Auburn, New York, on her last mission to free slaves, having evaded capture for 8 years on the Underground Railroad
1908 Earthquake strikes Messina in Italy, killing nearly 80,000
1943 All Kalmyk inhabitants of the Republic of Kalmukkie deported by the Soviet Union to Central Asia and Siberia. Many die en route.
Today’s Historical Events
418 St Boniface I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
801 Louis the Vrome occupies Barcelona
1065 Westminster Abbey Consecrated in London
1308 The reign of Emperor Hanazono, Emperor of Japan, begins
1612 First observation of Neptune – Galileo observes and records a “fixed star” without realising it is a planet
1614 Sperm whale beached at Noordwijk
1732 Benjamin Franklin under the pseudonym Richard Saunders begins publication of “Poor Richard’s Almanack”
1767 King Taksin crowned King of Thailand and establishes Thonburi as his capital
Today’s Historical Events in Film and TV
1895 Filmmakers the Lumiere brothers, hold the first commercial film screening at Salon Indien du Grand Café, Paris
1927 Arthur Honegger‘s opera “Antigone” premieres with a libretto by Jean Cocteau, sets by Pablo Picasso and costumes by Coco Chanel at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie, Brussels
1934 Film “Bright Eyes” premieres starring Shirley Temple and featuring the song “On the Good Ship Lollipop”
1949 20th Century Fox announces it will produce TV programs
1953 WLBT TV channel 3 in Jackson, MS (NBC) begins broadcasting
1954 KEPR TV channel 19 in Pasco-Kennewick-Richl, WA (CBS) 1st broadcast
1956 Miss Frances [Horwich], last Ding Dong School on NBC-TV
1957 CBS states it won’t broadcast baseball where minor league games are on
Today’s Historical Music Events
1821 Composer Gioachino Rossini moves to Bologna
1910 Opera “Konigskinder” is produced (NYC)
1925 George and Ira Gershwin‘s musical “Tip-Toes” premieres in New York City
1928 Ma Rainey, “Mother of the Blues” makes her last record “Big Feelin’ Blues”
1944 Leonard Bernstein‘s musical “On the Town” premieres in NYC
1958 Chipmunks (Alvin, Simon & Theodore with David Seville) hits #1
1963 “Double Dublin” closes at Little Theater NYC after 4 performances
1963 “Jennie” closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 82 performances
Today’s Historical Events in Sports
1887 John Layton Jarvis becomes first British race horse trainer to be knighted for services to racing
1905 Intercollegiate Athletic Association of US founded (becomes NCAA in 1910)
1918 Montreal’s Georges Vezina becomes the first NHL goalie to record an assist during the Canadiens’ 6-3 win over the Toronto Arenas
1934 First ever Women’s cricket international begins England vs Australia in Australia
1938 Paul Gibb scores 106 on Test Cricket debut v South Africa
1940 Cricketer Arthur Morris scores 111 in 2nd innings of 1st game after 148
1944 Former Wash 3rd baseman Buddy Lewis wins Distinguished Flying Cross
1944 Montreal right wing Maurice ‘Rocket’ Richard becomes first player in NHL history to score 8 points in one game with 5 goals and 3 assists in the Canadiens’ 9-1 win over the Detroit Red Wings
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 December 28
Sun Halo over Sweden
Video Credit & Copyright: Håkan Hammar (Vemdalen Ski Resort, SkiStar)
Explanation: What’s happened to the Sun? Sometimes it looks like the Sun is being viewed through a giant lens. In the featured video, however, there are actually millions of tiny lenses: ice crystals. Water may freeze in the atmosphere into small, flat, six-sided, ice crystals. As these crystals flutter to the ground, much time is spent with their faces flat and parallel to the ground. An observer may find themselves in the same plane as many of the falling ice crystals near sunrise or sunset. During this alignment, each crystal can act like a miniature lens, refracting sunlight into our view and creating phenomena like parhelia, the technical term for sundogs. The featured video was taken in late 2017 on the side of a ski hill at the Vemdalen Ski Resort in central Sweden. Visible in the center is the most direct image of the Sun, while two bright sundogs glow prominently from both the left and the right. Also visible is the bright 22 degree halo — as well as the rarer and much fainter 46 degree halo — also created by sunlight refracting through atmospheric ice crystals.
December 28 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
Today and tonight the Moon will be in a Waning Crescent phase. In this phase the Moon’s illumination is growing smaller each day until the New Moon. During this part of the Moon cycle, the Moon is getting closer to the Sun as viewed from Earth and the night side of the Moon is facing the Earth with only a small edge of the Moon being illuminated. This phase is best viewed an hour or 2 before the sunrise and can be quite beautiful if you’re willing to get up early. It can also be a great time to see the features of the Moon’s surface. Along the edge where the illuminated portion meets the dark side, the craters and mountains cast long shadows making them easier to observe with a telescope or binoculars.
Visit the December 2021 Moon Phases Calendar to see all the daily moon phase for this month.
Today’s Waning Crescent Phase
The Waning Crescent on December 28 has an illumination of 35%. 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 December 28 the Moon is 23.59 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 Crescent
Illumination: 35%
Moon Age: 23.59 days
Moon Angle: 0.54
Moon Distance: 370,965.10 km
Sun Angle: 0.54
Sun Distance: 147,109,039.38 km
Illumination: 35%
Moon Age: 23.59 days
Moon Angle: 0.54
Moon Distance: 370,965.10 km
Sun Angle: 0.54
Sun Distance: 147,109,039.38 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 this Custom Planetary Positions is from the local time in Frankfurt, Germany, Europe
28 December 2021
04:00 pm GMT 5:00 PM CEST
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)
Sun:07 Capricorn 08
Moon:26 Libra 56
Mercury:23 Capricorn 17
Venus:24 Capricorn 44 Rx
Mars:10 Sagittarius 44
Jupiter:29 Aquarius 54
Saturn:11 Aquarius 33
Uranus:11 Taurus 00 Rx
Neptune:20 Pisces 37
Pluto:25 Capricorn 50
True Lunar Node:01 Gemini 11
Mean Lunar Node:29 Taurus 42 Rx
Lilith (Black Moon):18 Gemini 05
Chiron:08 Aries 28
Ceres:28 Taurus 59 Rx
Pallas:15 Pisces 39
Juno:16 Capricorn 06
Vesta:22 Sagittarius 44
Eris:23 Aries 42 Rx
Moon:26 Libra 56
Mercury:23 Capricorn 17
Venus:24 Capricorn 44 Rx
Mars:10 Sagittarius 44
Jupiter:29 Aquarius 54
Saturn:11 Aquarius 33
Uranus:11 Taurus 00 Rx
Neptune:20 Pisces 37
Pluto:25 Capricorn 50
True Lunar Node:01 Gemini 11
Mean Lunar Node:29 Taurus 42 Rx
Lilith (Black Moon):18 Gemini 05
Chiron:08 Aries 28
Ceres:28 Taurus 59 Rx
Pallas:15 Pisces 39
Juno:16 Capricorn 06
Vesta:22 Sagittarius 44
Eris:23 Aries 42 Rx
Fire:4
Earth:8
Air:5
Water:2
Earth:8
Air:5
Water:2
Cardinal:8
Fixed:5
Mutable:6
Fixed:5
Mutable:6
Northwestern Hemisphere
The time for this Custom Planetary Positions is from the local time in Chicago, Illinois, USA
December 28, 2021
11:00 pm GMT 5:00 PM CST
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)
Sun:07 Capricorn 26
Moon:01 Scorpio 01
Mercury:23 Capricorn 43
Venus:24 Capricorn 37 Rx
Mars:10 Sagittarius 56
Jupiter:29 Aquarius 58
Saturn:11 Aquarius 35
Uranus:11 Taurus 00 Rx
Neptune:20 Pisces 37
Pluto:25 Capricorn 50
True Lunar Node:01 Gemini 11
Mean Lunar Node:29 Taurus 41 Rx
Moon:01 Scorpio 01
Mercury:23 Capricorn 43
Venus:24 Capricorn 37 Rx
Mars:10 Sagittarius 56
Jupiter:29 Aquarius 58
Saturn:11 Aquarius 35
Uranus:11 Taurus 00 Rx
Neptune:20 Pisces 37
Pluto:25 Capricorn 50
True Lunar Node:01 Gemini 11
Mean Lunar Node:29 Taurus 41 Rx
Lilith (Black Moon):18 Gemini 07
Chiron:08 Aries 29
Ceres:28 Taurus 57 Rx
Pallas:15 Pisces 43
Juno:16 Capricorn 12
Vesta:22 Sagittarius 54
Eris:23 Aries 42 Rx
Fire:4
Earth:8
Air:4
Water:3
Earth:8
Air:4
Water:3
Cardinal:7
Fixed:6
Mutable:6
Fixed:6
Mutable:6
28 December 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 Waning Crescent phase. In this phase the Moon’s illumination is growing smaller each day until the New Moon. During this part of the Moon cycle, the Moon is getting closer to the Sun as viewed from Earth and the night side of the Moon is facing the Earth with only a small edge of the Moon being illuminated. This phase is best viewed an hour or 2 before the sunrise and can be quite beautiful if you’re willing to get up early. It can also be a great time to see the features of the Moon’s surface. Along the edge where the illuminated portion meets the dark side, the craters and mountains cast long shadows making them easier to observe with a telescope or binoculars.
Visit the December 2021 Moon Phases Calendar to see all the daily moon phase for this month.
Today’s Waning Crescent Phase
The Waning Crescent on December 28 has an illumination of 35%. 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 December 28 the Moon is 23.59 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 Crescent
Illumination: 35%
Moon Age: 23.59 days
Moon Angle: 0.54
Moon Distance: 370,965.10 km
Sun Angle: 0.54
Sun Distance: 147,109,039.38 km
Illumination: 35%
Moon Age: 23.59 days
Moon Angle: 0.54
Moon Distance: 370,965.10 km
Sun Angle: 0.54
Sun Distance: 147,109,039.38 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
28 December 2021
06:00 am GMT 5:00 PM AEDT
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)
Sun:06 Capricorn 42
Moon:21 Libra 09
Mercury:22 Capricorn 39
Venus:24 Capricorn 53 Rx
Mars:10 Sagittarius 26
Jupiter:29 Aquarius 49
Saturn:11 Aquarius 30
Uranus:11 Taurus 01 Rx
Neptune:20 Pisces 36
Pluto:25 Capricorn 49
True Lunar Node:01 Gemini 10
Mean Lunar Node:29 Taurus 44 Rx
Lilith (Black Moon):18 Gemini 03
Chiron:08 Aries 28
Ceres:29 Taurus 02 Rx
Pallas:15 Pisces 33
Juno:15 Capricorn 56
Vesta:22 Sagittarius 31
Eris:23 Aries 42 Rx
Moon:21 Libra 09
Mercury:22 Capricorn 39
Venus:24 Capricorn 53 Rx
Mars:10 Sagittarius 26
Jupiter:29 Aquarius 49
Saturn:11 Aquarius 30
Uranus:11 Taurus 01 Rx
Neptune:20 Pisces 36
Pluto:25 Capricorn 49
True Lunar Node:01 Gemini 10
Mean Lunar Node:29 Taurus 44 Rx
Lilith (Black Moon):18 Gemini 03
Chiron:08 Aries 28
Ceres:29 Taurus 02 Rx
Pallas:15 Pisces 33
Juno:15 Capricorn 56
Vesta:22 Sagittarius 31
Eris:23 Aries 42 Rx
Fire:4
Earth:8
Air:5
Water:2
Air:5
Water:2
Cardinal:8
Fixed:5
Mutable:6
Fixed:5
Mutable:6
Southwestern Hemisphere
The time for the Custom Planetary Positions is from the local time in Sao Paulo, Brazil, South America
28 December 2021
08:00 pm GMT 5:00 PM BRT
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)
Sun:07 Capricorn 18
Moon:29 Libra 16
Mercury:23 Capricorn 32
Venus:24 Capricorn 40 Rx
Mars:10 Sagittarius 51
Jupiter:29 Aquarius 56
Saturn:11 Aquarius 34
Uranus:11 Taurus 00 Rx
Neptune:20 Pisces 37
Pluto:25 Capricorn 50
True Lunar Node:01 Gemini 11
Mean Lunar Node:29 Taurus 42 Rx
Lilith (Black Moon):18 Gemini 07
Moon:29 Libra 16
Mercury:23 Capricorn 32
Venus:24 Capricorn 40 Rx
Mars:10 Sagittarius 51
Jupiter:29 Aquarius 56
Saturn:11 Aquarius 34
Uranus:11 Taurus 00 Rx
Neptune:20 Pisces 37
Pluto:25 Capricorn 50
True Lunar Node:01 Gemini 11
Mean Lunar Node:29 Taurus 42 Rx
Lilith (Black Moon):18 Gemini 07
Chiron:08 Aries 28
Ceres:28 Taurus 58 Rx
Pallas:15 Pisces 41
Juno:16 Capricorn 09
Vesta:22 Sagittarius 49
Eris:23 Aries 42 Rx
Fire:4
Earth:8
Air:5
Water:2
Earth:8
Air:5
Water:2
Cardinal:8
Fixed:5
Mutable:6
Fixed:5
Mutable:6
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