Day: November 27, 2022

28 November 2022 Southern Hemisphere’s Planetary Positions

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 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

28 November 2022
03:00 pm GMT 12:00 PM BRT
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:06 Sagittarius 21
Moon:10 Aquarius 14
Mercury:17 Sagittarius 25
Venus:15 Sagittarius 31
Mars:19 Gemini 45 Rx
Jupiter:28 Pisces 50
Saturn:19 Aquarius 42
Uranus:16 Taurus 08 Rx
Neptune:22 Pisces 39 Rx
Pluto:26 Capricorn 44

True Lunar Node:13 Taurus 12 Rx
Mean Lunar Node:11 Taurus 58 Rx

Lilith (Black Moon):25 Cancer 25

Chiron:12 Aries 13 Rx
Ceres:23 Virgo 46
Pallas:26 Cancer 32
Juno:12 Pisces 49
Vesta:02 Pisces 15

Eris:24 Aries 05 Rx

Fire:5
Earth:5
Air:3
Water:6
Cardinal:5
Fixed:5
Mutable:9

Southern Hemisphere

The time for these Custom Planetary Positions is from the local time in Cape Town, South Africa
 28 November 2022
10:00 am GMT 12:00 PM SAST
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:06 Sagittarius 08
Moon:07 Aquarius 13
Mercury:17 Sagittarius 06
Venus:15 Sagittarius 16
Mars:19 Gemini 50 Rx
Jupiter:28 Pisces 50
Saturn:19 Aquarius 42
Uranus:16 Taurus 08 Rx
Neptune:22 Pisces 39 Rx
Pluto:26 Capricorn 43

True Lunar Node:13 Taurus 12 Rx
Mean Lunar Node:11 Taurus 59 Rx

Lilith (Black Moon):25 Cancer 23

Chiron:12 Aries 13 Rx
Ceres:23 Virgo 42
Pallas:26 Cancer 32
Juno:12 Pisces 46
Vesta:02 Pisces 11

Eris:24 Aries 05 Rx

Fire:5
Earth:5
Air:3
Water:6
Cardinal:5
Fixed:5
Mutable:9

Southwestern Hemisphere

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

28 November 2022
01:00 am GMT 12:00 PM AEDT
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:05 Sagittarius 46
Moon:01 Aquarius 45
Mercury:16 Sagittarius 32
Venus:14 Sagittarius 47
Mars:19 Gemini 58 Rx
Jupiter:28 Pisces 50
Saturn:19 Aquarius 40
Uranus:16 Taurus 09 Rx
Neptune:22 Pisces 39 Rx
Pluto:26 Capricorn 43

True Lunar Node:13 Taurus 13 Rx
Mean Lunar Node:12 Taurus 00 Rx

Lilith (Black Moon):25 Cancer 21

Chiron:12 Aries 14 Rx
Ceres:23 Virgo 34
Pallas:26 Cancer 31
Juno:12 Pisces 40
Vesta:02 Pisces 04

Eris:24 Aries 06 Rx

Fire:5
Earth:5
Air:3
Water:6
Cardinal:5
Fixed:5
Mutable:9

A Thought for Today

November 27, 2022 Daily Horoscopes

Click here to read Georgi Nicols Daily Horoscopes 

Moon Alert

Avoid shopping or making important decisions from 3 PM to 5:30 PM EST today (12 noon to 2:30 PM PST). After that, the Moon moves from Capricorn into Aquarius.

Aries (March 21-April 19)

You have strong feelings today when dealing with parents or authority figures. Fortunately, these feelings will be positive. You might establish a very warm bond with a parent or someone you respect and this becomes the perfect way to finish your special visit.

Taurus (April 20-May 20)

Discussions about philosophy, politics, medical matters or racial issues will be intense today. You might try to change someone’s mind or vice versa, they want to change yours. Nevertheless, on the whole, feelings are positive; and you feel warm and friendly with someone, perhaps even a member of a group.

Gemini (May 21-June 20)

Financial matters will unfold in your favour today. In fact, gifts, goodies and favours from others might come your way. This is also a good day to ask for a loan or mortgage or to get help from someone else. Something will happen that promotes your good name among your peers. You look good to everyone! Take a bow.

Cancer (June 21-July 22)

This is a lovely day to enjoy the company of partners, spouses and close friends because even though feelings are quite intense; nevertheless, they are warm and friendly. What is interesting is, you might admire your friends through the eyes of someone else, especially in a group setting.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22)

Work-related travel is likely for some of you. All of you will be motivated to make improvements to your job or improvements to your health or improvements to whatever it is you are doing today. You want to make the world a better place, especially in the ways where you have to deal with it.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)

Romantic passion is strong today! Of course, this is a double-edged sword, which means not only are your romantic passions strong, the same applies to feelings of jealousy and resentment. Fortunately, this is a positive day for you, which means you will have many opportunities to have fun and enjoy sports and the arts.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)

Family discussions are intense today. This is because you have ideas about how to improve something or introduce reforms into the family dynamic. Fortunately, others will hear you and possibly, even agree. How refreshing!

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)

Today you are enthusiastic, upbeat and full of positive ideas! This is why conversations with relatives, neighbours and siblings will be warm and friendly. Enjoy short trips. Likewise, enjoy learning something new that expands your world.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)

Today you have strong feelings about something that you own, which is why you won’t want to lend it. You want to take good care of it. Or perhaps, you have strong feelings about a potential purchase that you want to make? Your wealth and assets can increase today.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)

Today the Moon is in your sign lined up with big daddy Pluto which can make you impulsive and certainly, intense. Fortunately, the Moon is also dancing with lucky Jupiter, which makes you happy and outgoing. This is a good day for business. Ka-ching!

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)

This has been a popular time for you, and you have enjoyed the company of younger, creative, artistic people. You have also felt competitive in sports and creative activities as well. Today however, your feelings are private, and you will choose to keep them to yourself.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20)

An exchange with a friend or a member of a group will be intense today. Perhaps somebody wants to get to the bottom of something? Fortunately, good feelings will prevail, which means your relations with others, including groups, are mosly positive today.

If Your Birthday Is Today

Film director Kathryn Bigelow (1951 shares your birthday today. You are energetic, independent thinking, strong and focused. Your enthusiasm can inspire others. You are also intelligent and personally self-disciplined. This is a year of attainment and recognition for you. Expect promotions, prestige, awards and acknowledgement. Bravo!

November 27, 2022 Moon Goddess Current 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 Crescent Phase. Best seen in the west after the sun dips below the horizon at sunset. This is the first Phase after the New Moon and is a great time to see the features of the moon’s surface. 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 November 2022 Moon Phases Calendar to see all the daily moon phase for this month.

Today’s Waxing Crescent Phase

The Waxing Crescent on November 27 has an illumination of 17%. 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 3.99 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.

Phase Details

Phase: Waxing Crescent
Illumination: 17%
Moon Age: 3.99 days
Moon Angle: 0.55
Moon Distance: 363,307.87 km
Sun Angle: 0.54
Sun Distance: 147,595,319.96 km

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.

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

November 27, 2022 Northern Hemisphere’s Planetary Positions

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

November 27, 2022
08:00 pm GMT 12:00 PM PST
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:05 Sagittarius 33
Moon:28 Capricorn 43
Mercury:16 Sagittarius 13
Venus:14 Sagittarius 32
Mars:20 Gemini 03 Rx
Jupiter:28 Pisces 49
Saturn:19 Aquarius 40
Uranus:16 Taurus 10 Rx
Neptune:22 Pisces 39 Rx
Pluto:26 Capricorn 42

True Lunar Node:13 Taurus 14 Rx
Mean Lunar Node:12 Taurus 01 Rx

Lilith (Black Moon):25 Cancer 19

Chiron:12 Aries 14 Rx
Ceres:23 Virgo 30
Pallas:26 Cancer 31
Juno:12 Pisces 37
Vesta:02 Pisces 00

Eris:24 Aries 06 Rx

Fire:5
Earth:6
Air:2
Water:6
Cardinal:6
Fixed:4
Mutable:9

Northern Hemisphere

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

 November 27, 2022
06:00 pm GMT 12:00 PM CST
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:05 Sagittarius 28
Moon:27 Capricorn 30
Mercury:16 Sagittarius 05
Venus:14 Sagittarius 26
Mars:20 Gemini 04 Rx
Jupiter:28 Pisces 49
Saturn:19 Aquarius 39
Uranus:16 Taurus 10 Rx
Neptune:22 Pisces 39 Rx
Pluto:26 Capricorn 42

True Lunar Node:13 Taurus 14 Rx
Mean Lunar Node:12 Taurus 01 Rx

Lilith (Black Moon):25 Cancer 19

Chiron:12 Aries 14 Rx
Ceres:23 Virgo 28
Pallas:26 Cancer 31
Juno:12 Pisces 36
Vesta:01 Pisces 59

Eris:24 Aries 06 Rx

Fire:5
Earth:6
Air:2
Water:6
Cardinal:6
Fixed:4
Mutable:9

Northeastern Hemisphere

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

27 November 2022
11:00 am GMT 12:00 PM CET
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:05 Sagittarius 10
Moon:23 Capricorn 13
Mercury:15 Sagittarius 38
Venus:14 Sagittarius 04
Mars:20 Gemini 11 Rx
Jupiter:28 Pisces 49
Saturn:19 Aquarius 38
Uranus:16 Taurus 11 Rx
Neptune:22 Pisces 39 Rx
Pluto:26 Capricorn 42

True Lunar Node:13 Taurus 15 Rx
Mean Lunar Node:12 Taurus 02 Rx

Lilith (Black Moon):25 Cancer 17

Chiron:12 Aries 14 Rx
Ceres:23 Virgo 22
Pallas:26 Cancer 30
Juno:12 Pisces 31
Vesta:01 Pisces 54

Eris:24 Aries 06 Rx

Fire:5
Earth:6
Air:2
Water:6
Cardinal:6
Fixed:4
Mutable:9

November 27, 2022 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 November 27

Supernumerary Rainbows over New Jersey

Image Credit & Copyright: John Entwistle

Explanation: Yes, but can your rainbow do this? After the remnants of Hurricane Florence passed over the Jersey Shore, New Jersey, USA in 2018, the Sun came out in one direction but something quite unusual appeared in the opposite direction: a hall of rainbows. Over the course of a next half hour, to the delight of the photographer and his daughter, vibrant supernumerary rainbows faded in and out, with at least five captured in this featured single shot. Supernumerary rainbows only form when falling water droplets are all nearly the same size and typically less than a millimeter across. Then, sunlight will not only reflect from inside the raindrops, but interfere, a wave phenomenon similar to ripples on a pond when a stone is thrown in. In fact, supernumerary rainbows can only be explained with waves, and their noted existence in the early 1800s was considered early evidence of light’s wave nature.

Your Sky Surprise: What picture did APOD feature on your birthday? (post 1995)

November 27 Today in History

Today’s Important Historical Events

1095 Pope Urban II preaches the west to wrestle control of the Holy land from the Seljuk Turks at the Council of Clermont, triggering the First Crusade

1295 English King Edward I calls what later became known as “The Model Parliament” extending the authorities of its representatives

1493 Christopher Columbus returns to La Navidad colony, finding it destroyed by the 1st native American uprising against Spanish rule. Taíno cacique Caonabo led his people to attack the settlement after the brutal treatment they received from the garrison who disobeyed Columbus’s orders.

1807 Portuguese Royal Family and its court of nearly 15,000 people leave Lisbon for their colony of Brazil to escape invading Napoleonic troops

1895 Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel‘s will establishes the Nobel Prize

Today’s Historical Events

176 Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius grants his son Commodus the rank of Imperator

399 St Anastasius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope

1095 Pope Urban II preaches the west to wrestle control of the Holy land from the Seljuk Turks at the Council of Clermont, triggering the First Crusade

1237 Battle of Cortenuova: Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II defeats the Second Lombard League

1295 English King Edward I calls what later became known as “The Model Parliament” extending the authorities of its representatives

1382 Battle of Westrozebeke/Roosebeke. French army defeats the Flemish army. Flemish leader Philip Van Artevelde killed and corpse displayed

1493 Christopher Columbus returns to La Navidad colony, finding it destroyed by the 1st native American uprising against Spanish rule. Taíno cacique Caonabo led his people to attack the settlement after the brutal treatment they received from the garrison who disobeyed Columbus’s orders.

1495 Scottish king James IV receives Perkin Warbeck, pretender to the English trone

Today’s Historical Events in Film and TV

1911 Audience throws vegetables at actors for 1st recorded time in US

1920 “The Mark of Zorro” directed by Fred Niblo and starring Douglas Fairbanks is shown in New York – 1st American superhero film

1952 KTBC TV channel 7 in Austin, TX (CBS) begins broadcasting

1960 CBS radio cancels “Have Gun Will Travel”

1961 KHAW TV channel 11 in Hilo, HI (NBC) begins broadcasting

1973 Neil Simon‘s play “Good Doctor” premieres in NYC

1977 “Comedy with Music (Victor Borge)” closes at Imperial NY after 66 performances

1986 Europa TV, a project of five European public service broadcasters ceases operations after exhausting its budget

Today’s Historical Events in Music

1843 Opera “Bohemian Girl” by Michael William Balfe with a libretto by Alfred Bunn first produced in London

1896 “Also Sprach Zarathustra” (Thus Spake Zarathustra) by Richard Strauss, inspired by Friedrich Nietzsche‘s philosophical novel, debuts in Frankfurt

1903 Opera “Die Neugierigen Frauen” by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari is produced in Munich

1919 Ignacy Jan Paderewski resigns as Polish Prime Minister

1926 Béla Bartók’s ballet “Miraculous Mandarin” premieres at the Cologne Opera, Germany, conducted by Eugen Szenkar

1937 Pro-labor musical revue “Pins & Needles” opens, produced by ILGWU

1954 “By the Beautiful Sea” closes at Majestic Theater, NYC, after 270 performances

1967 Jimi Hendrix headlines bill (including The Move and Pink Floyd) for 2 shows at Whitla Hall, Queens College, in Belfast – his only concerts in Ireland

Today’s Historical Events in Sports

1870 The New York Times dubs baseball “The National Game”

1940 6th Heisman Trophy Award: Tom Harmon, Michigan (HB)

1941 New York Yankee Joe DiMaggio is named AL MVP, for the 2nd time

1943 CFL Grey Cup, Varsity Stadium, Toronto: Hamilton Flying Wildcats defeat Winnipeg RCAF Bombers, 23-14

1946 English soccer team beats Netherlands, 8-2

1947 Joe DiMaggio wins his 3rd MVP, beating Ted Williams by 1 vote

1948 CFL Grey Cup, Varsity Stadium, Toronto: Calgary Stampeders win their first Championship; defeat Ottawa Rough Riders, 12-7

1950 Red Sox sign shortstop Lou Boudreau as a player to 2-year contract

Massive Ancient Sea Turtle Discovered in Spain was Nearly the Size of a Car

Paleontologists in Spain believe they unearthed a new prehistoric sea turtle species that may be among the largest ever, according to research published last week in the peer-reviewed journal Scientific Reports.

Researchers at the Autonomous University of Barcelona analyzed the pelvis bone and posterior part of the shell recovered from the Pyrenees mountain region in northeastern Spain in 2016 and 2021, and determined the turtle was about 12 feet long (just smaller than the average sedan ), according to a news release on the study.

A hiker traversing the Pyrenees in 2016 stumbled upon part of the fossil. He called the local authorities who recovered the fossil and transferred it to a local museum, where it sat for years until 2021, according to Albert Sellés, a researcher with the university’s Miquel Crusafont Catalan Institute of Paleontology.

That’s when researchers decided to examine the fossil further, Sellés said.

Paleontologists returned to the site where the fossil was found in early 2021 and unearthed another piece of the fossil, according to Sellés.

Sellés, who co-authored the study, said the team began comparing newly discovered remains to other giant ancient sea turtles in the fossil record like Archelon and Protostega , both of which roamed the waters near North America and were the best potential matches. But the fossils had distinct features. Its shell was different, as was its pelvis.

“That’s when we realized that what we had before us was something different,” Sellés told USA TODAY Tuesday.

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The newly discovered turtle is slightly smaller than the extinct Archelon. The world’s largest known prehistoric sea turtle, Archelon could grow to be up to 15 feet long and weigh as much as 3.5 tons, according to the news release.

Still, they were looking at the largest turtle ever found in Europe, Sellés said. The new species, Leviathanochelys aenigmatica, lived 72.1 to 83.6 million years ago during the Campanian Age, when much of modern-day Europe was underwater, the researcher say.

Sellés and his colleagues could glean relatively little about the giant turtle’s lifestyle with such incomplete remains. But they were able to identify some quirks in its physiology.

The pelvis, for example, has two protruding sections that Sellés hypothesizes could have allowed the turtle to compress its stomach area to expel air from its body and descend into deeper waters.

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Leviathanochelys aenigmatica’s very existence also complicates previous understanding about the evolution of large sea turtles because it shows other species of ancient sea turtle could achieve a massive size.

“The evolution of turtles’ sizes is more complex than what he had thought up to this point,” Sellés said. “It was always thought that large sea turtles belonged to the Archelon and Protostega groups. Now it doesn’t seem so.”

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Massive ancient sea turtle discovered in Spain was nearly the size of a car, researchers say

A Laugh for Today