Day: January 22, 2022

January 22 Today in History

Today’s Important Historical Events

1689 Prince William of Orange (future King William III of Britain), summons Convention Parliament to discuss ruling jointly with his wife Mary (daughter of exiled King James II)

1879 Battle of Rorke’s Drift: British garrison of 150 holds off 3,000-4,000 Zulu warriors. Eleven Victoria Crosses and a number of other decorations were awarded to the defenders.

1905 In St Petersburg, Russia, a large demonstration of workers led by Father Gapon, march to the Winter Palace with a petition to the Tsar; troops fire on protesters in what becomes known as ‘Bloody Sunday’

1973 Roe vs Wade: US Supreme Court legalizes most abortions

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

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.

2022 January 22

The Full Moon and the Dancer

Image Credit & Copyright: Elena Pinna

Explanation: On Monday, January’s Full Moon rose as the Sun set. Spotted near the eastern horizon, its warm hues are seen in this photo taken near Cagliari, capital city of the Italian island of Sardinia. Of course the familiar patterns of light and dark across the Moon’s nearside are created by bright rugged highlands and dark smooth lunar maria. Traditionally the patterns are seen as pareidolia, giving the visual illusion of a human face like the Man in the Moon, or familiar animal like the Moon rabbit. But for a moment the swarming murmuration, also known as a flock of starlings, frozen in the snapshot’s field of view lends another pareidolic element to the scene. Some see the graceful figure of a dancer enchanted by moonlight.

 

For Your Listening Pleasure – Imbolc

Music for Imbolc – Brigid’s Day Songs (Celtic Festival)

For Your Listening Pleasure – Lammas

Lisa Thiel – Lammas Song

January 22, 2022 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 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 January 2022 Moon Phases Calendar to see all the daily moon phase for this month.

Today’s Waning Gibbous Phase

The Waning Gibbous on January 22 has an illumination of 81%. 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 January 22 the Moon is 19.03 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: 81%
Moon Age: 19.03 days
Moon Angle: 0.52
Moon Distance: 382,199.60 km
Sun Angle: 0.54
Sun Distance: 147,241,701.40 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

Northwestern Hemisphere

The time for this Custom Planetary Positions is from the local time in Los Angeles, California, USA

January 22, 2022
03:00 pm GMT 7:00 AM PST
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:02 Aquarius 33
Moon:26 Virgo 10
Mercury:04 Aquarius 25 Rx
Venus:12 Capricorn 01 Rx
Mars:28 Sagittarius 37
Jupiter:05 Pisces 05
Saturn:14 Aquarius 22
Uranus:10 Taurus 50
Neptune:21 Pisces 09
Pluto:26 Capricorn 39
True Lunar Node:29 Taurus 21 Rx
Mean Lunar Node:28 Taurus 23 Rx
Lilith (Black Moon):20 Gemini 52
Chiron:08 Aries 57
Ceres:28 Taurus 10
Pallas:22 Pisces 31
Juno:25 Capricorn 53
Vesta:06 Capricorn 03
Eris:23 Aries 42
Fire:3
Earth:9
Air:4
Water:3
Cardinal:6
Fixed:7
Mutable:6

 

Northern Hemisphere

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

January 22, 2022
01:00 pm GMT 7:00 AM CST
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:02 Aquarius 28
Moon:25 Virgo 05
Mercury:04 Aquarius 31 Rx
Venus:12 Capricorn 02 Rx
Mars:28 Sagittarius 33
Jupiter:05 Pisces 04
Saturn:14 Aquarius 21
Uranus:10 Taurus 50
Neptune:21 Pisces 09
Pluto:26 Capricorn 38
True Lunar Node:29 Taurus 21 Rx
Mean Lunar Node:28 Taurus 23 Rx
Lilith (Black Moon):20 Gemini 51
Chiron:08 Aries 57
Ceres:28 Taurus 10
Pallas:22 Pisces 29
Juno:25 Capricorn 51
Vesta:06 Capricorn 00
Eris:23 Aries 42
Fire:3
Earth:9
Air:4
Water:3
Cardinal:6
Fixed:7
Mutable:6

Northeastern Hemisphere

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

22 January 2022
06:00 am GMT 7:00 AM CEST
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:02 Aquarius 11
Moon:21 Virgo 18
Mercury:04 Aquarius 53 Rx
Venus:12 Capricorn 08 Rx
Mars:28 Sagittarius 21
Jupiter:05 Pisces 00
Saturn:14 Aquarius 19
Uranus:10 Taurus 49
Neptune:21 Pisces 09
Pluto:26 Capricorn 38
True Lunar Node:29 Taurus 23 Rx
Mean Lunar Node:28 Taurus 24 Rx
Lilith (Black Moon):20 Gemini 49
Chiron:08 Aries 57
Ceres:28 Taurus 09
Pallas:22 Pisces 24
Juno:25 Capricorn 44
Vesta:05 Capricorn 51
Eris:23 Aries 42
Fire:3
Earth:9
Air:4
Water:3
Cardinal:6
Fixed:7
Mutable:6

22 January 2022 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

The Moon’s current phase for today and tonight is 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 January 2022 Moon Phases Calendar to see all the daily moon phase for this month.

Today’s Waning Gibbous Phase

The Waning Gibbous on January 22 has an illumination of 81%. 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 January 22 the Moon is 19.03 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: 81%
Moon Age: 19.03 days
Moon Angle: 0.52
Moon Distance: 382,199.60 km
Sun Angle: 0.54
Sun Distance: 147,241,701.40 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 Tomorrow FOR 1700 BRT GMT 2000 Post 1400 CT

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

22 January 2022
08:00 pm GMT 5:00 PM BRT
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:02 Aquarius 46
Moon:28 Virgo 53
Mercury:04 Aquarius 09 Rx
Venus:11 Capricorn 58 Rx
Mars:28 Sagittarius 46
Jupiter:05 Pisces 08
Saturn:14 Aquarius 24
Uranus:10 Taurus 50
Neptune:21 Pisces 10
Pluto:26 Capricorn 39
True Lunar Node:29 Taurus 19 Rx
Mean Lunar Node:28 Taurus 22 Rx
Lilith (Black Moon):20 Gemini 53
Chiron:08 Aries 58
Ceres:28 Taurus 11
Pallas:22 Pisces 34
Juno:25 Capricorn 58
Vesta:06 Capricorn 10
Eris:23 Aries 42
Fire:3
Earth:9
Air:4
Water:3
Cardinal:6
Fixed:7
Mutable:6

Southern Hemisphere

The time for this Custom Planetary Positions is from the local time in Cape Town, South Africa

22 January 2022
03:00 pm GMT 5:00 PM SAST
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:02 Aquarius 33
Moon:26 Virgo 10
Mercury:04 Aquarius 25 Rx
Venus:12 Capricorn 01 Rx
Mars:28 Sagittarius 37
Jupiter:05 Pisces 05
Saturn:14 Aquarius 22
Uranus:10 Taurus 50
Neptune:21 Pisces 09
Pluto:26 Capricorn 39
True Lunar Node:29 Taurus 21 Rx
Mean Lunar Node:28 Taurus 23 Rx
Lilith (Black Moon):20 Gemini 52
Chiron:08 Aries 57
Ceres:28 Taurus 10
Pallas:22 Pisces 31
Juno:25 Capricorn 53
Vesta:06 Capricorn 03
Eris:23 Aries 42
Fire:3
Earth:9
Air:4
Water:3
Cardinal:6
Fixed:7
Mutable:6

Southwestern Hemisphere

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

22 January 2022
06:00 am GMT 5:00 PM AEDT
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:02 Aquarius 11
Moon:21 Virgo 18
Mercury:04 Aquarius 53 Rx
Venus:12 Capricorn 08 Rx
Mars:28 Sagittarius 21
Jupiter:05 Pisces 00
Saturn:14 Aquarius 19
Uranus:10 Taurus 49
Neptune:21 Pisces 09
Pluto:26 Capricorn 38
True Lunar Node:29 Taurus 23 Rx
Mean Lunar Node:28 Taurus 24 Rx
Lilith (Black Moon):20 Gemini 49
Chiron:08 Aries 57
Ceres:28 Taurus 09
Pallas:22 Pisces 24
Juno:25 Capricorn 44
Vesta:05 Capricorn 51
Eris:23 Aries 42
Fire:3
Earth:9
Air:4
Water:3
Cardinal:6
Fixed:7
Mutable:6