Day: March 16, 2022

March 16, 2022 Daily Correspondence Digest for the Northern Hemisphere’s Moon Phase and Custom 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 was born.

From Moongiant.com

The Moon’s current phase for today and tonight is a Waxing Gibbous phase. This phase is when the moon is more than 50% illuminated but not yet a Full Moon. The phase lasts about 7 days with the moon becoming more illuminated each day until the Full Moon. During a Waxing Gibbous the moon rises in the east in mid-afternoon and is high in the eastern sky at sunset. The moon is then visible through most of the night sky setting a few hours before sunrise. The word Gibbous first appeared in the 14th century and has its roots in the Latin word “gibbosus” meaning humpbacked.

Visit the March 2022 Moon Phases Calendar to see all the daily moon phase for this month.

Today’s Waxing Gibbous Phase

The Waxing Gibbous on March 16 has an illumination of 96%. 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 March 16 the Moon is 12.94 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: Waxing Gibbous
Illumination: 96%
Moon Age: 12.94 days
Moon Angle: 0.51
Moon Distance: 391,735.01 km
Sun Angle: 0.54
Sun Distance: 148,841,535.03 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 want to calculate the planetary positions for a specific use and time, click on this link

Currentplanetarypositions.com

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

For Your Local Time and Date

Northwestern Hemisphere

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

 March 16, 2022
11:00 pm GMT 4:00 PM PDT
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:26 Pisces 20
Moon:09 Virgo 46
Mercury:11 Pisces 15
Venus:09 Aquarius 50
Mars:08 Aquarius 00
Jupiter:17 Pisces 43
Saturn:20 Aquarius 33
Uranus:12 Taurus 10
Neptune:23 Pisces 00
Pluto:28 Capricorn 09
True Lunar Node:24 Taurus 11 Rx
Mean Lunar Node:25 Taurus 34 Rx
Lilith (Black Moon):26 Gemini 47
Chiron:11 Aries 25
Ceres:08 Gemini 25
Pallas:11 Aries 31
Juno:17 Aquarius 01
Vesta:02 Aquarius 58
Eris:24 Aries 02
Fire:3
Earth:5
Air:7
Water:4
Cardinal:4
Fixed:8
Mutable:7
Obliquity of the Nine Planets

Northern Hemisphere

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

March 16, 2022
09:00 pm GMT 4:00 PM CDT
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:26 Pisces 15
Moon:08 Virgo 40
Mercury:11 Pisces 07
Venus:09 Aquarius 45
Mars:07 Aquarius 56
Jupiter:17 Pisces 42
Saturn:20 Aquarius 33
Uranus:12 Taurus 10
Neptune:23 Pisces 00
Pluto:28 Capricorn 09
True Lunar Node:24 Taurus 11 Rx
Mean Lunar Node:25 Taurus 34 Rx
Lilith (Black Moon):26 Gemini 46
Chiron:11 Aries 25
Ceres:08 Gemini 24
Pallas:11 Aries 29
Juno:16 Aquarius 59
Vesta:02 Aquarius 55
Eris:24 Aries 02
Fire:3
Earth:5
Air:7
Water:4
Cardinal:4
Fixed:8
Mutable:7
Obliquity of the Nine Planets

Northeastern Hemisphere

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

16 March 2022
03:00 pm GMT 4:00 PM CEST
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:26 Pisces 00
Moon:05 Virgo 25
Mercury:10 Pisces 41
Venus:09 Aquarius 31
Mars:07 Aquarius 45
Jupiter:17 Pisces 38
Saturn:20 Aquarius 31
Uranus:12 Taurus 09
Neptune:23 Pisces 00
Pluto:28 Capricorn 08
True Lunar Node:24 Taurus 14 Rx
Mean Lunar Node:25 Taurus 35 Rx
Lilith (Black Moon):26 Gemini 45

Chiron:11 Aries 24

Ceres:08 Gemini 19
Pallas:11 Aries 23
Juno:16 Aquarius 53
Vesta:02 Aquarius 48
Eris:24 Aries 02

Fire:3
Earth:5
Air:7
Water:4
Cardinal:4
Fixed:8
Mutable:7

March 16 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 March 16

The Observable Universe

Illustration Credit & Licence: Wikipedia, Pablo Carlos Budassi

Explanation: How far can you see? Everything you can see, and everything you could possibly see, right now, assuming your eyes could detect all types of radiations around you — is the observable universe. In light, the farthest we can see comes from the cosmic microwave background, a time 13.8 billion years ago when the universe was opaque like thick fog. Some neutrinos and gravitational waves that surround us come from even farther out, but humanity does not yet have the technology to detect them. The featured image illustrates the observable universe on an increasingly compact scale, with the Earth and Sun at the center surrounded by our Solar System, nearby stars, nearby galaxies, distant galaxies, filaments of early matter, and the cosmic microwave background. Cosmologists typically assume that our observable universe is just the nearby part of a greater entity known as “the universe” where the same physics applies. However, there are several lines of popular but speculative reasoning that assert that even our universe is part of a greater multiverse where either different physical constants occur, different physical laws apply, higher dimensions operate, or slightly different-by-chance versions of our standard universe exist.

 

Available: High res image version with readable annotations | Clickable annotation version

A Thought for Today

16 March 2022 Daily Correspondence Digest Southern Hemisphere’s Moon Phase

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 was born.

From Moongiant.com

The Moon’s current phase for today and tonight is a Waxing Gibbous phase. This phase is when the moon is more than 50% illuminated but not yet a Full Moon. The phase lasts about 7 days with the moon becoming more illuminated each day until the Full Moon. During a Waxing Gibbous the moon rises in the east in mid-afternoon and is high in the eastern sky at sunset. The moon is then visible through most of the night sky setting a few hours before sunrise. The word Gibbous first appeared in the 14th century and has its roots in the Latin word “gibbosus” meaning humpbacked.

Visit the March 2022 Moon Phases Calendar to see all the daily moon phase for this month.

Today’s Waxing Gibbous Phase

The Waxing Gibbous on March 16 has an illumination of 96%. 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 March 16 the Moon is 12.94 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: Waxing Gibbous
Illumination: 96%
Moon Age: 12.94 days
Moon Angle: 0.51
Moon Distance: 391,735.01 km
Sun Angle: 0.54
Sun Distance: 148,841,535.03 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

 

 

16 March 2022 Daily Correspondence Digest Southern Hemisphere’s Custom Planetary Positions

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

16 March 2022
08:00 pm GMT 5:00 PM BRT
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:26 Pisces 12
Moon:08 Virgo 08
Mercury:11 Pisces 03
Venus:09 Aquarius 43
Mars:07 Aquarius 55
Jupiter:17 Pisces 41
Saturn:20 Aquarius 33
Uranus:12 Taurus 10
Neptune:23 Pisces 00
Pluto:28 Capricorn 08

True Lunar Node:24 Taurus 12 Rx
Mean Lunar Node:25 Taurus 34 Rx

Lilith (Black Moon):26 Gemini 46

Chiron:11 Aries 24
Ceres:08 Gemini 23
Pallas:11 Aries 28
Juno:16 Aquarius 58
Vesta:02 Aquarius 54

Eris:24 Aries 02

Fire:3
Earth:5
Air:7
Water:4
Cardinal:4
Fixed:8
Mutable:7

 

Southern Hemisphere

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

16 March 2022
03:00 pm GMT 5:00 PM SAST
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:26 Pisces 00
Moon:05 Virgo 25
Mercury:10 Pisces 41
Venus:09 Aquarius 31
Mars:07 Aquarius 45
Jupiter:17 Pisces 38
Saturn:20 Aquarius 31
Uranus:12 Taurus 09
Neptune:23 Pisces 00
Pluto:28 Capricorn 08

True Lunar Node:24 Taurus 14 Rx
Mean Lunar Node:25 Taurus 35 Rx

Lilith (Black Moon):26 Gemini 45

Chiron:11 Aries 24
Ceres:08 Gemini 19
Pallas:11 Aries 23
Juno:16 Aquarius 53
Vesta:02 Aquarius 48

Eris:24 Aries 02

Fire:3
Earth:5
Air:7
Water:4
Cardinal:4
Fixed:8
Mutable:7

Southwestern Hemisphere

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

16 March 2022
06:00 am GMT 5:00 PM AEDT
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:25 Pisces 38
Moon:00 Virgo 33
Mercury:10 Pisces 03
Venus:09 Aquarius 09
Mars:07 Aquarius 28
Jupiter:17 Pisces 33
Saturn:20 Aquarius 29
Uranus:12 Taurus 08
Neptune:22 Pisces 59
Pluto:28 Capricorn 08

True Lunar Node:24 Taurus 18 Rx
Mean Lunar Node:25 Taurus 36 Rx

Lilith (Black Moon):26 Gemini 42

Chiron:11 Aries 22
Ceres:08 Gemini 13
Pallas:11 Aries 14
Juno:16 Aquarius 44
Vesta:02 Aquarius 37

Eris:24 Aries 02

Fire:3
Earth:5
Air:7
Water:4
Cardinal:4
Fixed:8
Mutable:7