Day: July 5, 2022

July 5 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 July 5

A Molten Galaxy Einstein Ring

Image Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, S. Jha; Processing: Jonathan Lodge

Explanation: It is difficult to hide a galaxy behind a cluster of galaxies. The closer cluster’s gravity will act like a huge lens, pulling images of the distant galaxy around the sides and greatly distorting them. This is just the case observed in the featured image recently re-processed image from the Hubble Space Telescope. The cluster GAL-CLUS-022058c is composed of many galaxies and is lensing the image of a yellow-red background galaxy into arcs seen around the image center. Dubbed a molten Einstein ring for its unusual shape, four images of the same background galaxy have been identified. Typically, a foreground galaxy cluster can only create such smooth arcs if most of its mass is smoothly distributed — and therefore not concentrated in the cluster galaxies visible. Analyzing the positions of these gravitational arcs gives astronomers a method to estimate the dark matter distribution in galaxy clusters, as well as infer when the stars in these early galaxies began to form.

 

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July 5, 2022 Daily Horoscopes Digest

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Moon Alert

Avoid shopping or important decisions from 2 PM to 6:30 PM EDT today (11 AM to 3:30 PM PDT). After that, the Moon moves from Virgo into Libra.

Aries (March 21-April 19)

This is the perfect day to think about home repairs or how to make improvements to where you live. Family discussions will be lively and productive! You are willing to spend money to achieve your aims because you want these things done.

Taurus (April 20-May 20)

You have more drive today because fiery Mars has just moved into your sign. This will act like a tonic for you – boosting your energy for the next six weeks. (We like!) This will make you enthusiastic when talking to others, and ready to say what you mean and mean what you say!

Gemini (May 21-June 20)

Today you have moneymaking ideas. Or perhaps you see ways to make money on the side or how to find another job? Meanwhile, this is an excellent time for you to buy wardrobe goodies – except for one warning: Check the Moon Alert above.

Cancer (June 21-July 22)

This is a busy day! You want to get down to brass tacks and back to business. You’re prepared to work mentally hard to advance any project that you’re involved in. What’s more important, you’re prepared to initiate something as well. Likewise, you’re very convincing today!

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22)

This is the perfect day to start a research project, or seek solutions to old problems. This is because you have the energy to work behind the scenes or work alone to discover the information that you need to know. You have ambitious plans that you intend to put into motion.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)

Go gently when talking to friends or members of groups because you’ll be tempted to come on too strong. You won’t hesitate to defend your ideas. You might even take a leadership position. Others respect that you’re prepared to stand up for yourself.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)

Today you have no trouble asserting yourself talking to parents, bosses, teachers and the police. You will speak with confidence and authority, which will make others listen to you and respect what you have to say. This puts you in a good position to discuss shared property and inheritances.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)

Today you’re keen to work hard and use your mind, which is why it’s a great day to study, sort through legal matters or finish an important paper. You have the focus and perseverance necessary to get the job done. Meanwhile, be patient with partners and friends.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)

You’ll be successful today in discussions with someone about shared property, inheritances or insurance disputes because you’ve done your homework and you know how to defend your best interests. Your mind is sharp, clear and focused.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)

This is a good time to clarify or explain important issues to someone. You won’t hesitate to defend issues that are important to you because you have the necessary objectivity to see both sides of the picture, and the confidence to defend your side.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)

This will be a productive day for you at work or in any endeavor that you set for yourself because you are focused, mentally energetic and ready to tackle anything in a hands-on way. You welcome a grassroots situation where you can roll up your sleeves and dig in. “Hand me that shovel.”

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20)

Your creative vibes are hot today, which is why this is a productive day for artists and people involved in creative projects. It’s also an active day for those involved in sports and dealing with children. You want to use your mind to be entertained.

If Your Birthday Is Today

Badminton champ P.V. Sindhu (1995) shares your birthday today. You are naturally vigourous and energetic! However, you also have charm, class and poise, qualities that make you memorable. You’re an adventurer, and a loyal friend. This year is the beginning of a new nine-year cycle for you. Be courageous. Open any door. Be ready to explore new directions!

July 5, 2022 Current Moon Phase Digest

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 Crescent Phase. A Waxing Crescent is the first Phase after the New Moon and is a great time to see the features of the moon’s surface. During this phase the Moon can be seen in the wester sky after the sun dips below the horizon at sunset. The moon is close to the sun in the sky and mostly dark except for the right edge of the moon which becomes brighter as the days get closer to the next phase which is a First Quarter with a 50% illumination.

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

Today’s Waxing Crescent Phase

The Waxing Crescent on July 5 has an illumination of 34%. 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 July 5 the Moon is 5.83 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 Crescent
Illumination: 34%
Moon Age: 5.83 days
Moon Angle: 0.51
Moon Distance: 388,826.07 km
Sun Angle: 0.52
Sun Distance: 152,099,204.90 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

July 5, 2022 Northern Hemisphere’s Planetary Positions Digest

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

July 05, 2022
07:00 pm GMT 12:00 PM PDT
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:13 Cancer 45
Moon:28 Virgo 12
Mercury:01 Cancer 02
Venus:15 Gemini 15
Mars:00 Taurus 23
Jupiter:07 Aries 52
Saturn:24 Aquarius 30 Rx
Uranus:17 Taurus 56
Neptune:25 Pisces 26 Rx
Pluto:27 Capricorn 42 Rx

True Lunar Node:20 Taurus 57 Rx
Mean Lunar Node:19 Taurus 42 Rx

Lilith (Black Moon):09 Cancer 07

Chiron:16 Aries 21
Ceres:22 Cancer 02
Pallas:00 Gemini 19
Juno:20 Pisces 16
Vesta:06 Pisces 53

Eris:25 Aries 00

Fire:3
Earth:6
Air:3
Water:7
Cardinal:8
Fixed:5
Mutable:6

Northern Hemisphere

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

July 05, 2022
05:00 pm GMT 12:00 PM CDT
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:13 Cancer 40
Moon:27 Virgo 08
Mercury:00 Cancer 52
Venus:15 Gemini 09
Mars:00 Taurus 19
Jupiter:07 Aries 51
Saturn:24 Aquarius 30 Rx
Uranus:17 Taurus 56
Neptune:25 Pisces 26 Rx
Pluto:27 Capricorn 42 Rx

True Lunar Node:20 Taurus 58 Rx
Mean Lunar Node:19 Taurus 42 Rx

Lilith (Black Moon):09 Cancer 06

Chiron:16 Aries 21
Ceres:22 Cancer 00
Pallas:00 Gemini 16
Juno:20 Pisces 16
Vesta:06 Pisces 53

Eris:25 Aries 00

Fire:3
Earth:6
Air:3
Water:7
Cardinal:8
Fixed:5
Mutable:6

Northeastern Hemisphere

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

5 July 2022
02:00 pm GMT 4:00 PM CEST
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:13 Cancer 33
Moon:25 Virgo 33
Mercury:00 Cancer 37
Venus:15 Gemini 00
Mars:00 Taurus 14
Jupiter:07 Aries 51
Saturn:24 Aquarius 31 Rx
Uranus:17 Taurus 55
Neptune:25 Pisces 26 Rx
Pluto:27 Capricorn 42 Rx

True Lunar Node:20 Taurus 58 Rx
Mean Lunar Node:19 Taurus 42 Rx

Lilith (Black Moon):09 Cancer 06

Chiron:16 Aries 21
Ceres:21 Cancer 57
Pallas:00 Gemini 13
Juno:20 Pisces 15
Vesta:06 Pisces 53

Eris:25 Aries 00

Fire:3
Earth:6
Air:3
Water:7
Cardinal:8
Fixed:5
Mutable:6

Pagan and Magickal Terms and Definitions

Today’s Word is

Archetype

From moonlitpriestess.com

Universal pattern, symbol, or figure believed to be of primordial origins; typically used as a form of language between the conscious and subconscious minds. The most famous theories and discussions of the role and importance of archetypes were first proposed by psychologist Carl Jung.

Spell For Today – Contacting A Friend

This spell should be used to cause someone with whom you have lost contact to contact you. It is not manipulation so much as an astral call for contact when you have no other way to reach them that you know of.

You will need:
White candle anointed w/ sandalwood oil
Sandalwood incense
photo of the person
small glass of water.
salt

Light the white candle and the incense. Place the picture of the person on your altar. Put 2 heaping tablespoons of salt in the palm of your right hand. Let a small amount of salt trickle into the glass while making the sign of the equal armed cross of the elements. Make this cross 3 times. Say ” Call me” three times as you do this. Then set the glass on the altar and say “Get in touch with me, please.” They should contact you by the time the water has evaporated from the glass.

Author:
Rowan Moonstone

July 5, Today in History

Today’s Important Historical Events

1687 Isaac Newton‘s great work Principia published by Royal Society in England, outlining his laws of motion and universal gravitation

1811 Venezuelan Declaration of Independence: 7 provinces declare themselves independent of Spain

1852 Frederick Douglass, fugitive slave, delivers his ‘What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?’ speech to the Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Society in Rochester, condemns the celebration as hypocritical sham

1865 US Secret Service begins operating under the Treasury Department

1994 Amazon.com founded in Bellevue, Washington by Jeff Bezos

2004 First Indonesian presidential election by the people – first round (eventually won by Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono)

Today’s Historical Events

649 St Martin I begins his reign as Catholic Pope

767 Duke of Nepi names his brother (leek) Pope Constantine II

1166 Austrian town of Bad Kleinkirchheim is first mentioned, in an ecclesiastical document

1294 Pietro del Murrone elected as Pope Coelestinus V

1295 Scotland and France form an alliance, the beginnings of the Auld Alliance, against England

1436 German emperor Sigismund signs peace with Hussieten

1450 Pope Nicolas V names Walraven van Meurs bishop of Munster

1596 English fleet under Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, captures Cadiz

Today’s Historical Events in Film and TV

1953 WANC TV channel 21 in Asheville, NC (IND) begins broadcasting

1954 The BBC broadcasts its first television news bulletin

1961 KUSD TV channel 2 in Vermillion, SD (PBS) begins broadcasting

1970 20th Berlin International Film Festival cancelled due to controversy surrounding the participation of Michael Verhoeven’s anti-war film “o.k.”

1989 “Seinfield” (originally titled The Seinfeld Chronicles” screens its pilot episode starring Jerry Seinfeld, Jason Alexander, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Michael Richards on NBC

Today’s Historical Events in Music

1942 1st performance of Heitor Villa-Lobos’ Chôros 6/9/11

1947 “Barefoot Boy with Cheek” closes at Martin Beck NYC after 108 performances

1954 Singer Elvis Presley‘s 1st professional recording session (with guitarist Scotty Moore & bass player Bill Black) takes place at Sam Phillips’ Memphis Recording Service in Memphis, Tennessee. The trio record four songs including their historic cover of Arthur “Big Boy” Crudup’s song “That’s All Right”. [1]

1963 1st Beatles’ tune to hit US charts, Del Shannon’s cover of “From Me to You” at no. 87

1965 Greek-American soprano Maria Callas makes her final opera stage appearance in the title role of Giacomo Puccini‘s “Tosca” at Convent Garden, London, England

1968 John Lennon sells his psychedelic painted Rolls-Royce

1969 Rolling Stones play a free concert in London’s Hyde Park

1975 At Knebworth Festival in England, Pink Floyd debut their album “Wish You Were Here” with pyrotechnics and an exploding plane which flies into the stage

Today’s Historical Events in Sports

1898 Lizzie Arlington becomes first woman to play professional men’s baseball when she pitches 9th inning for the Reading Coal Heavers against the Allentown Peanuts; allows 2 hits and walks a batter but preserves 5-0 win

1902 All-rounder Monty Noble takes 6 for 52 as Australia wins the one and only cricket Test played at Sheffield’s Bramall Lane, England

1904 NY Giants 18-game winning streak ends as Phillies win 6-5 in 10 innings at Huntington Park

1906 Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: Dorothea Chambers beats May Sutton 6-3, 9-7 for her 3rd of 7 Wimbledon singles titles

1907 Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: American May Sutton avenges previous year’s defeat, beating Dorothea Chambers 6-1, 6-4

1912 Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: English badminton champion Ethel Larcombe wins her first and only major tennis title beating Charlotte Cooper 6-3, 6-1

1914 MLB Boston Braves (26-40) are 15 games back in NL, go on to win World Series 4-0 vs Philadelphia A’s

1919 Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: Suzanne Lenglen of France beats Dorothea Chambers 10-8, 4-6, 9-7 for the first of 6 Wimbledon singles titles